The mean streets of Delco

James Stropas survived a tour of duty in Iraq.

But he couldn’t survive Delaware County.

Police say he died at the hands of Sean Burton.

You can read the grisly details here.

Prosecutors yesterday laid out their case against Burton, who is charged with savagely attacking Stropas after tracking him down via a GPS device he had placed on Stropas’ car.

It came to a head in the parking lot of a packed Olde Ridge Village shopping center on Baltimore Pike in Springfield.

It’s an unlikely place for a murder. It’s always jammed.

Several witnesses testified to just how brutal the attack was yesterday at Burton’s preliminary hearing.

Police have indicated a love triangle was at the center of the deadly affair, with Stropas apparently seeing Burton’s ex.

Hard to believe a man could survive the battlefield in Iraq, only to meet his fate in the crowded parking lot of a Delaware County shopping center.

Comments