W. Philly girl, 3, found hours after AMBER alert
An AMBER Alert was issued earlier tonight after a custody dispute ended in gunfire in West Philadelphia and the triggerman fled with his 3-year-old daughter, police said.
W. Philly girl, 3, found hours after AMBER alert
An Amber Alert was issued last night after a custody dispute ended in gunfire in West Philadelphia and the triggerman fled with his 3-year-old daughter, police said.
Adam Johnson, 24, apparently got into a heated argument with the mother of his daughter, Amber Johnson, on Osage Avenue near 59th Street at about 7:30 p.m., said Lt. John Walker of Southwest Detectives.
Johnson fired several shots during the argument, one of which grazed the face of little Amber’s 6-month-old sister, who was inside her mother's house. The baby was treated at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
At about 11 p.m., police found little Amber alive and well in the Lansdowne, Pa., home of Johnson's girlfriend, Walker said. Johnson fled his girlfriend's home after he saw a TV news report about the shooting. Johnson, of Belmont Avenue near Westminster, is wanted on charges that include aggravated assault, recklessly endangering the welfare of another person and weapons violations. Anyone with information can contact police at 215-686-3183.
How stupid can a person be? Find that fool and lock him up for life!— WPhillyguy
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- No, we can't do this!— demaggio
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- QUICK.......come up with a new gun control law.— scorpio27
- i think we live in society that values more the love a mother has for her child than a father for his. yes we as a society have a concerning epidemic of fathers not being fathers. however time after time i have seen good men want to be involved (actively) yet mothers cut off their right to their child. yes what this man did was inexcusable however i love my son to death and would snap as well if someone tried to keep me from him.— ihatestupidpeople
- ihatestupidpeople - I agree with you, but because this article (like many others in the DN) is not written well we as readers have no idea what the custody dispute involved. Did the father have ANY custody rights? How often was he seeing his child? Has he EVER supported his child financially, spiritually, emotionally? We are in the dark. We only know that this lost soul shot into a house and injured an infant. John 10:10— hollowhustla
- i think saying we don't have ALL the info has to work both ways. if we all understand that the reporting at the dn isn't thorough then we have to assume there are other facts. When you pose a question like "how often was he seeing his child" that is a loaded question that automatically looks at the father unfavorably. Why can't we assume he was taking care of this responsibility and therefore snapped? That makes more sense than he wasn't seeing his daughter and snapped. Again we hear so much about men not being fathers and very little about the men who are doing a great job, so society accepts this as the prevailing truth.— ihatestupidpeople
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- This story is pretty ironic. You have a young, black male who actually WANTS to be in his child's life. That's something you don't see everyday.— ThomasWPaine4
- I am always shocked how racist you people are on this site... in 2009!! So sad.— hop251
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