Cops: Suspect arrested minutes after homicide in North Philadelphia
Cops chased and arrested a man who they saw ditch a gun minutes after a man was fatally shot on a North Philadelphia street Thursday night, police said.
Cops: Suspect arrested minutes after homicide in North Philadelphia
Cops chased and arrested a man who they saw ditch a gun minutes after a man was fatally shot on a North Philadelphia street Thursday night, police said.
Police found the victim, a 26-year-old man, with gunshot wounds to his neck, chest, stomach, arm, both legs and buttocks lying in a vacant lot on 24th Street near Ridge Avenue shortly before midnight, Chief Inspector Scott Small said. He was rushed to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:59 p.m.
Small said 22nd District officers were in the immediate area when they received the call for the shooting and saw a man jump out of a vehicle at 24th and Montgomery streets, less than a block from where the man was shot. The officers chased the man and saw him toss a handgun as he was running, Small said. They eventually caught up with him, placed him under arrest and recovered the gun.
It was the second arrest in connection with a shooting made by Philadelphia police within minutes of the shooting itself on Thursday, after cops saw a man with a gun chasing another man he'd allegedly just shot in the city's Germantown section earlier in the evening and arrested him.
The 9mm semiautomatic handgun recovered near the 24th and Ridge homicide scene appeared to match the shell casings found scattered in the vacant lot where the victim was found, investigators said. The suspect remained in custody early Friday morning but was not yet charged as of 1:30 a.m.
The 26-year-old man was the second man shot to death on Thursday in Philadelphia and the seventh shooting victim in the city since 5 p.m.
Good job PPD being near by for a chance if you keep it up then those that do crime will think about it we need more quick response from you. If people get the call out fast then we will see more arrest. I bet each one of them wish they never did those crimes not knowing they wouldn't have enough time to get away. Sitting in a cell right now wishing they was home in there bed it will be never for one and a long time for the other.— JBA- Forget about the guns, what if all these people stop walking around these neighborhoods after dark, then the creeps would have no one to shoot but themselves !! HOLLA !!!!
— newsy - @newsy Those streets were surrendered almost a generation ago. Things like this also happen at 3PM.
The police did a good job, quickly arresting a killer, and giving a air-tight case to the DA by collecting the gun while it was still hot! Wont need to depend on Snitching for this one..
Now, lets go all the way and arrest the people who sold the gun...— ridgeave 
"Dats how we do"— 835union
Its a shame that George W Bush and the Republicons turned this Country into! A War Zone!- Yes I remember the Slime Ball Redistribution Act of 2002. It forced the relocation of violent, uneducated drug dealers and users into Democratic controlled cities. — towman
- Wow it has got to the point where these clowns are shooting people down like the wild west. Is there any help for Philly anymore?— MADHOG
