KEVIN BOOKER figures it was around 11:30 at night when someone started pounding on his front door, late enough to make him a little nervous. When he swung open the door to his Logan home on Jan. 8, no one was there. Booker shrugged it off, trudged back to bed, and went to sleep. An hour later, the pounding resumed. This time it was loud enough to wake his neighbors. Booker, 54, a retired Philadelphia police officer, grabbed his .380-caliber handgun and headed for the door again. "I said, `Who is it?` and I heard someone say, `Police,...
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