down shouting: "I'm so psyched, I could kill someone." Initial assaults Just before 10:00 P.M. the caravan arrived at the McDonald's . Its passengers then jumped out and began chasing every Fox Chase youth they saw with broken off hockey sticks and baseball bats. According to one account, they outnumbered the Fox Chase teenagers thirteen to two. They cornered one and began severely beating him with bats until his friends could pull him free. The Fox Chase teenagers then scattered, but the rampage spread out to encompass a much wider portion of Fox Chase. Residents witnessing the melee overtaking their normally peaceful neighborhood began calling Philadelphia's 911 emergency response service in growing numbers, each caller expecting police to be sent out right away. Some callers described what looked to be as many as 40 to 50 kids shouting obscenities, smashing bottles, hurling rocks, and breaking car windows. But with no police patrol cars being dispatched, the caravan began racing recklessly throughout Fox Chase until finally zeroing in on one particular young male it saw near to the front steps of his church, Eddie Polec, who had been waiting there to walk home with his younger brother when he found himself being chased down by the succession of cars coming toward him. As the caravan sharply pulled into the church's parking lot cutting him off while simultaneously blocking other Fox Chase youth from coming to his aid, he tried running farther, but the first passenger out threw a baseball bat at his legs causing him to fall. The moment he was down that Abington teenager and others began striking him with baseball bats as he helplessly lay on the ground pleading for his life. He was then brought back to his feet once more so that some in the group could take bat swings directly at his head. After suffering eight forceful blows to the head this way he was then dropped back to the pavement, at which point another, wearing steel tipped boots, kicked him several times in the face. With that final assault, the assailants then quickly fled in their caravan and were said to have been laughing and high-fiving one another as it sped away. Authorities would later describe it as having been one of the most brutal murders in all Philadelphia history. Arrival of police It was 40 minutes after the first 911 call was placed that