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Jury finds Rittenhouse Square stabber guilty of 1st-degree murder

A jury Wednesday convicted Steven Simminger II in the fatal stabbing of 24-year-old Colin McGovern in March 2016. Their worlds collided after McGovern's friend made a sarcastic remark about Simminger's New Jersey Devils sports cap, and Simminger then pulled out a knife.

Steven Simminger (left), of Blackwood, N.J., was charged with murder in the March 13, 2016, fatal stabbing of Colin McGovern, 24, of Bucks County, after the two met in a chance encounter at Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square.
Steven Simminger (left), of Blackwood, N.J., was charged with murder in the March 13, 2016, fatal stabbing of Colin McGovern, 24, of Bucks County, after the two met in a chance encounter at Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square.Read moreFile photos
    by Julie Shaw
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