4 dead, 5 wounded in weekend mayhem

Shortly before 2 a.m., yesterday police followed a trail of bullet casings from Carlisle and Moore streets, South Philadelphia, to 15th and Moore, where they found the body of Ratseiey Yon, 23, outside his home, riddled with bullets from "head to toe," police said.

Yon died at Thomas Jefferson University Hospitalat 4:37 a.m.

He was one of four people killed and five others wounded during a weekend of murder, mayhem and freak accidents. The incidents, according to police, included:

FRIDAY

* 6:05 p.m. Officers responding to a call about a person with a gun found Lafayette Davis, 35, of Silver Avenue near 13th Street, North Philadelphia, shot multiple times in the head and neck in a vacant lot near his home. He was pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital at 12:07 a.m. Saturday. Homicide Sgt. Charles Coan said that the motive for the shooting appears to have been an argument, but police are still searching for suspects.

SATURDAY

* 2:43 a.m. Tyreek Robinson, 21, of Champlost Avenue near Hutchinson Street, Fern Rock, was shot once in the stomach while waiting in his car for his girlfriend to get off work at a nearby bar. He was pronounced dead at 4:09 a.m. at Albert Einstein Medical Center. Police arrested Darrell Washington, 25, of 10th Street near Olney Avenue, for the shooting, which they said was motivated by robbery.

* 3:33 a.m. A 36-year-old man was stabbed once in the back on Torresdale Avenue near Unruh Street, Tacony. The unidentified victim remains in critical condition at Frankford Hospital-Torresdale.

* 1:13 p.m. Daniel English Jr., 48, of D Street near Ashdale, Olney, was operating his 2002 Suzuki motorcycle on Rising Sun Avenue near Ashdale St., when he collided with the rear of a van. English was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:14 p.m.

* 4 p.m. A 2 1/2 -year-old boy fell from a second-story window on Orleans Street near Kensington Avenue when he went to say hello to a passer-by and the screen he was leaning against fell out. The unidentified child is in critical but stable condition at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children.

* 6:30 p.m. An unidentified 26-year-old man was shot once in the stomach and once in each hand on Haverford Avenue near 32nd Street, Mantua. He remains in critical condition at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

SUNDAY

* 2 p.m. An unidentified 29-year-old man was shot once in the back at 52nd Street near Race, West Philadelphia. He remains in critical condition at HUP.

* 10:03p.m. An unidentified man was taken to HUP with a leg wound, police said. The victim was shot near 51st and Funston streets in West Philadelphia, police said. Police said they knew of no motive for the shooting. No arrests have been made. *

Staff writer Dafney Tales contributed to this report.