Chased home: Mob attacks man in his house

ABOUT 11 PM on Sept. 9, dozens of youths with bats and pipes descended on a tidy residential area of Port Richmond looking for white teens who allegedly had attacked an African-American kid at Stokely Playground a couple of hours earlier. Two fearful white teens spotted Mark LaVelle on Indiana Avenue near Belgrade Street and asked for help. Suddenly, the mob appeared. LaVelle, who said that he didn 't know the two kids, who looked to be 13 or 14, ran with them into his nearby house. " 'We got you, you white mother ——-! '"LaVelle said he heard someone yell in the" mob "of black and Hispanic youths. Inside his house, LaVelle, 37, called to his wife, Kim, 30, to go to their bedroom with their twin 13-month-old boys, Mark and Mason, and to call police. He also ordered his two other sons, 11 and 17, and his nephew, 7, to stay upstairs. (Excerpt) Read more at philly.com …