Cops nab homicide suspect within 10 minutes of shooting in Germantown

A suspect in a fatal shooting in Germantown Sunday night didn't get very far before he was arrested with two guns on him within about 10 minutes and a mile of the homicide scene, police said.

Cops were called to an apartment on Manheim Street near Wayne Avenue at 9:16 p.m. for the shooting. When they got there, they found the 52-year-old man who lives there shot in the shoulder and chest in the living room, Chief Inspector Scott Small said. The man was taken to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:39 p.m. Police found a holster on the victim's right hip, Small said, and three of his family members who witnessed the shooting told them that the shooter had stolen his gun after shooting him.

Cops put out a description of the shooter, who wore a black hooded sweatshirt, over police radio immediately after the shooting, and within a few minutes, officers from Germantown's 14th District spotted a man matching the description who jumped out of a black Cadillac at Chelten Avenue and Kenyon Street -- eight blocks from the homicide scene -- and started running. Small said police chased the suspicious man, caught him and found two guns on him while they were frisking him.

One of the witnesses to the fatal shooting was brought to where the suspect was arrested and positively identified him as the shooter in the homicide, Small said.

"The 14th District did a really good job," Small said. "Everything was done by the book."

Small said cops are still looking for the black Cadillac with tinted windows that the suspect jumped out of, because the driver took off once he got out.

Police weren't sure Sunday night what motivated the shooting, but Small said drugs appeared to be a likely culprit, because police found a good amount of paraphernalia inside the man's apartment.