An Update on the Temple Law Shooter: Trial Date SetAnd the victim, Eddie DiDonato, continues to recover.
July 2nd, 2010 admin

It has been a while since we last wrote about Gerald Ung, the Temple Law student who was arrested in January for shooting Edward “Eddie” DiDonato Jr. (a former college lacrosse star who also has a legal connection — his father is a partner at Fox Rothschild, the prominent Philadelphia firm). Today we have two updates. First, a reader alerted us to some updates in the criminal case against Ung, who faces five charges, including attempted murder. …
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On Monday, we wrote about a shooting in Philadelphia involving a law student, as the accused shooter, and the son of a law firm partner, as the apparents victim. We now have some updates on the situation. Alas, we still have more questions than answers. Gerald Ung (pictured), 28, is in his final year at Temple University’s Beasley School of...
Today brings an update in the case of Gerald Ung. The Temple Law fourth-year got in trouble earlier this year for being the wrong kind of gunner . While other Temple students have recently appeared in these pages, sporting legal tees and trying to get undergrads out of their tees , it’s been a while since we’ve heard news of Ung. Our...
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