PHILADELPHIA - Residents in Philadelphia's Fairmount neighborhood have reported frightening encounters with a man asking for money, including at least two homeowners who said the panhandler threatened them at their doorstep.Geno Rapone said he was making dinner for his children on Tuesday night when the man started banging on his front door.
Rapone noticed the man from a picture that a neighbor posted on the NextDoor app about a threatening encounter. "I asked him what he wanted, he said ‘I need money to get to 52nd and Market.
I’m stranded.’ I said ‘I don’t have any money I can’t help you," Rapone said. After being turned away, Rapone said the man continued to bang on the door and ring the doorbell.
He also hurled threats a Rapone and asked him to come outside. MORE LOCAL HEADLINESWhen police arrived, they told Rapone that the same man recently threatened another person for money at gunpoint a few blocks away. "When they were taking my report they told me right before he came to my house he was at 24th and Pirotte and threatened someone with a gun," Rapone said.