A Hurricane Katrina evacuee working as a teacher in South Philadelphia suffered a black eye, facial bruises and a chipped tooth when two female students attacked him in front of his English class, police said.

One girl repeatedly punched him in the face and head, while the other hit him over the head with a chair, according to police. Both girls were arrested and charged with aggravated assault, making terroristic threats and disorderly conduct.

"They saw an opportunity to hit a teacher. It was not unlike what happened in New Orleans after Katrina," he said. "There was suddenly an opportunity to strike out at authority without any retribution."

Seghers said one of the sisters had yelled an obscenity into his classroom last Wednesday, threatened him and ran away when he asked for her name. On Friday, he said, he heard the girl making a ruckus in the hallway outside his classroom and again asked for her name.

Daniel Starling, a 10th grader at South Philadelphia High School, was with a group of youths around 3:15 p.m. when a volley of at least six shots erupted. Police said a male came around a corner and fired at the group with a semiautomatic pistol.

Starling was struck once in the left arm by a round that also passed into his chest, police said. He was taken to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where he was pronounced dead at 3:46 p.m. No one else was hit.

Johnson said two detectives were in the area on an unrelated assignment when they heard gunshots on Snyder Avenue. They arrived in time to chase a four-door silver Pontiac that sped north on 20th Street and crashed into a six-foot chain-link fence several blocks away at Fernon Street. The occupants fled, police said.

The spot where the Pontiac crashed is directly below a large wall painting urging, in big letters, "Stop the Violence," and listing the names of 46 young victims of violence.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Jury selection in the trial of a homeless man accused of stabbing an intern for the District Attorney's Office was interrupted Monday when the defendant flipped over a table, called the judge a "white devil Klansman," and ended up being subdued by four sheriff's deputies.

Larry Kelly, 52, who is black, later declared, "No white man is speaking for me" when Assistant Defender Gregg Blender tried to enter not-guilty pleas on Kelly's behalf.

Kelly, who is charged with attempted murder and aggravated assault, refused to acknowledge the judge or answer any questions; at his request, he was returned to a holding cell before opening statements. Kelly has been jailed since his arrest after failing to make $750,000 bail.

Kelly is accused of stabbing Joshua Harman in the abdomen on July 15, 2004, just outside the District Attorney's Office downtown. Harman, a 25-year-old Columbia law student from Frazer, Chester County, required emergency surgery.

Blender told jurors that Kelly suffers from mental-health problems and, on the day of the stabbing, had "demons that were going on in his head."

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