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2nd victim: Colts' Harrison was holding gun

Philadelphia D.A. hasn't charged wide receiver in incident that wounded 3

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Colts wide receiver Marvin Harrison is originally from Philadelphia.
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updated 10:57 a.m. ET Jan. 12, 2009

A second witness has claimed that Indianapolis Colts receiver Marvin Harrison was holding a gun during an altercation in April in which three people were shot outside a Philadelphia car wash owned by Harrison, ESPN Magazine reports.

Despite having the second witness's account, the Philadelphia district attorney last week said charges would not be brought against Harrison at this time because witness statements could not be corroborated.

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The statement by Robert Nixon, one of three people injured in the shooting, that Harrison was holding a gun would seem to back up the statement of Dwight Dixon, who was also shot. Police have determined that the gun used in the shooting did belong to Harrison. Dixon was shot in the left hand; Nixon was shot in the back by a bullet that ricocheted up the street; and a child sitting in a nearby car was injured by shattered glass, according to the ESPN report.

Last week, Philadelphia D.A. Lynne Abraham said she would not bring charges against Harrison because there was a lack of credible witnesses. "I'm pretty comfortable I know who fired the gun," she said. "But I'm not going to say because I don't have the evidence."

Nixon initially told police he didn't know anything about the shooting, but four days later signed a statement saying he was positive he saw Harrison with a gun in his hand, a source told the magazine.

Abraham said Nixon "admitted that he had fabricated many of the details" of his May 2 statement to police. The ESPN source who saw Nixon's statement said some elements of his story had changed but his identification of Harrison remained consistent.

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