Police: Person of interest in cop murder taken into custody

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Police Wednesday afternoon confirmed that a person of interest was taken into custody around 3:30 p.m. in connection with the shooting death of Officer Moses Walker.

The 19-year police department veteran was gunned down early Saturday morning on Cecil B. Moore Avenue near Woodstock Street in North Philadelphia.

The suspect's age and identity has not yet been released. The man was taken into custody by police and U.S. Marshals at the Bartram Village apartments, a sprawling PHA complex on Gibson Drive near 54th Street, in Southwest Philadelphia.

Authorities removed the man from a third-floor unit in one of the three-story, brick buildings on Bartram Drive.

Neighbors said they didn't recognize the man who was taken into custody and were unsure of who the man had been hiding with.

"People are always running in here trying to hide," said Alfonzo Reid, who looked on as police walked a K-9 unit into the building the man was removed from.

Police in the Public Affairs and Homicide Units could not yet disclose additional details about the suspect. The unidentified man was being interviewed by officials in the Homicide Unit Wednesday night.