SICK - Man batters and sexually assaults 6yr old. While out on bail he rapes 18yr old and executes couple who come to her aid.

'You could call it an execution'By DANA DiFILIPPO
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IT ALL STARTED with a creepy stare from a stranger.

An 18-year-old woman waiting at a Fern Rock bus stop late Wednesday got nervous enough about that leer that she fled across the street.

But the thug followed, and within minutes, a tragedy exploded that left two Good Samaritans in the morgue, the teenager in the hospital, a murderous rapist in jail and three shattered families in agonizing heartache.

The violence began shortly before midnight near 10th Street and Olney Avenue with the teenager's desperate flight from her perverted pursuer.

The man, whom police identified yesterday as Kevin White, 28, of Fairhill Street near Luzerne, Fern Rock, pounced on the girl in a nearby alley, flashed a .45-caliber semi-automatic handgun and demanded her money, said Chief of Detectives Joseph Fox.

The teen had no money, so her depraved assailant dragged her into the dark, secluded walkway behind Anthony Burno's rowhouse, where he began raping her, Fox said.

Just then, Burno and his girlfriend, Kira Derrick, 29, arrived home after a night out, Fox said.

As they parked behind Burno's garage, the rapist hurriedly ordered his victim to put her pants back on and pretend she was his girlfriend until the couple went into Burno's home, Fox said.

But the victim, compliant at first, tore free of her attacker as the couple neared, screamed for help and warned them that her rapist was armed, Fox said.

Before they could respond, the thug began firing, Fox said. He chased the trio into Burno's small, weedy back yard, where he shot the three as they tried to hide, Fox said.

"You could call it an execution," Fox said.

The teen limped to neighbor Terrell Mackey's back door, and began pounding on it and shrieking for help.

"I let her in and called the cops and then went around [the house] to check on everyone to see if they were cool," said Mackey, 18, adding that he had not realized until later the extent of the carnage outside.

Outside, Burno and Derrick lay dying, and their killer had vanished.

But he didn't get far. Police Officers Richard Redanauer and Timothy McGonigle were on routine patrol nearby when they heard a radio call of gunfire, Fox said.

They spotted White sprinting down 11th Street, and collared him after a brief struggle, Fox said. The officers found a handgun shoved in White's waistband, and his victim identified him at the scene as her attacker, he added.

White, free on bail awaiting trial in the sexual assault and beating of his girlfriend's 6-year-old son, now is being held without bail on charges of murder, aggravated assault, rape and related offenses.

The teen was hospitalized with wounds to the leg and arm. She was expected to survive.

Yesterday morning, a dried pool of gore, discarded latex gloves and other medical gear, and police chalk markings indicating where spent bullet casings had fallen, attested to the carnage.

Relatives of Burno, reluctant to witness such graphic evidence of his violent death, huddled in the alley, tearfully remembering him as a carefree man who loved to sing and cook.

Burno, 48, was a chef who started a new job this week - he'd worked only a day - in the student center cafeteria at Temple University and had another culinary job at a Center City restaurant, relatives said.

He had previously worked at a lunch truck outside the Social Security building on Spring Garden Street near 4th, and other restaurants in the city, they said.

Derrick, a mother of two, had been dating Burno for about six months, his relatives said. Her blue Ford Explorer remained parked outside Burno's rowhouse yesterday, with two baby seats, a Dora the Explorer doll, kids' school papers, a toy black Cadillac Escalade and other child-related items strewn in the back.

Derrick did clerical work in the Social Security building and got to know Burno as a lunch-truck regular, Burno's relatives said.

That sounded familiar to Wadiyah Burno, his estranged wife, who met him when she worked for Prudential. She said she had been happily married to him for four years and was separated the last two.

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