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Philadelphia Police Officer Chuck Cassidy was shot in the head Oct. 31 in West Oak Lane. He died the next day.
Here are the stories, video, images and audio from the incident.
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Witnesses: Lewis admitted shooting
Two witnesses testified today that John Lewis told them he killed Officer Chuck Cassidy, and one said Lewis told him he was afraid he was "going to kill another cop."
 
Full coverage of fatal shooting of Officer Cassidy
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2 donation-theft suspects caught
Police have arrested two of three people they say stole donations made to the family of slain Officer Chuck Cassidy as news of the thefts prompted others to step forward and give money.
Cassidy suspect charged in robberies
As police continue to investigate the man who confessed to killing Officer Chuck Cassidy last month in West Oak Lane, a portrait of a brazen serial robber is emerging.
Lengthy inquiry in Cassidy case seen
Authorities said yesterday that it could take months before they decide whether a veteran detective properly investigated allegations that accused murderer John Lewis was the gunman who held up a pizza shop 11 days before he allegedly killed Officer Chuck Cassidy.
Did police fail to act on tip?
Eleven days before Officer Chuck Cassidy was shot and killed, suspect John Lewis was identified to police as the gunman who held up a Feltonville pizza shop, but no arrest warrant was obtained.
Cassidy suspect held with no bail
The suspect in the killing of Philadelphia Police Officer Chuck Cassidy was ordered held without bail at a predawn hearing yesterday. John Lewis, 21, was arraigned via closed-circuit television and held in the detention unit at Police Headquarters.
No decision on death penalty case in Cassidy killing
Six days after fleeing to Miami, John Lewis, the North Philadelphia man charged with murder in last week's shooting of Police Officer Chuck Cassidy, returned home yesterday afternoon with his hands and feet in shackles. A team of five Philadelphia homicide detectives escorted Lewis from Miami, an undertaking with at least two symbolic touches: The suspect was secured with the dead officer's handcuffs, and the police wagon that spirited him to police headquarters was assigned to the 35th Police District - the murdered officer's precinct.
Judge won't cut bail for alleged Lewis accomplice
A municipal court judge refused yesterday to reduce the $100,000 bail for a man accused of lying to police and hindering the investigation into the shooting death of Philadelphia Police Officer Chuck Cassidy. Shawn Williams, 23, of the 5700 block of Ogontz Avenue, was being held yesterday by Judge Deborah Griffin on charges of hindering apprehension, giving false reports to police, and obstruction of justice lodged against him Nov. 1.
Annette John-Hall | What about all the other killers?
As Kisha Bivines watched the weeklong news coverage of the search for Officer Chuck Cassidy's killer, a round-the-clock manhunt that brought out SWAT teams and helicopters and reached all the way to Miami, all she could do was cry. "I heard them saying, 'We're going to find this man . . . We're not going to rest . . . $150,000 reward money . . . ' I only wish my son's life meant as much to someone other than me," she said. "Why can't they look for all criminals the same?"
Suspect in Cassidy case is expected back today
Shackled hand and foot and accompanied by five armed Philadelphia homicide detectives, 21-year-old Jordan Lewis is scheduled to return today to face a murder charge in the Oct. 31 shooting of Police Officer Chuck Cassidy.
Final salute to fallen officer
Under the gilded dome of the Cathedral Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul, the family of Chuck Cassidy yesterday remembered the slain officer as "a gentle man with a perfect heart" and challenged the city to come together to stop the violence. Before an audience of thousands, Cassidy's brother-in-law, Tony Conti, said if that happens, "at least we will have a sense of an answer" for why he died.
Lewis on suicide watch
MIAMI - With his hands shackled to a chain around his waist, the man accused of killing Philadelphia Police Officer Chuck Cassidy stepped forward before a closed-circuit prison camera yesterday to say he would not oppose his extradition to Pennsylvania on the charge of murder. The legal proceeding took less than five minutes before Judge Fred Seraphin, whose courtroom in a nearby building was linked to the Miami-Dade County jail by video.
 
Cassidy's accused killer waives extradition
MIAMI - With his hands shackled to a chain around his waist, the man accused of killing Philadelphia Police Officer Chuck Cassidy stepped forward before a closed-circuit prison camera today to say he would not oppose his extradition to Pennsylvania on the charge of murder.
Captured, he confesses
MIAMI - Officer Chuck Cassidy's killer confessed late last night to reporters in Miami, saying he was sorry for what had happened. "I apologize to his family. I never meant anything to happen like this," John Lewis said as he was led from Miami police headquarters to a jail cell next to the courthouse where today he is to appear for an extradition hearing.
Intense search on for suspect
Investigators searched intently through the night for the "armed and dangerous" 21-year-old Olney High School dropout who they say may have used his mother's gun to kill Officer Chuck Cassidy.
Manhunt continues for Cassidy's killer
As the intense hunt for the killer of Officer Chuck Cassidy stretched through a third day yesterday, Police Commissioner Sylvester M. Johnson said he was "very optimistic" that investigators were closing in on a target. "I'm just very confident we'll have the person in custody," Johnson said, conveying an upbeat tone for the first time since Cassidy was mortally wounded Wednesday.
In N. Phila., profiling is a fact of life
There are about 104,000 African American men between the ages of 18 and 44 in the city of Philadelphia. The census doesn't measure how many of them take it for granted that if they wear dark hooded sweatshirts or drive a car with tinted windows, they run a good chance of getting stopped by police. But it's somewhere between many and most. Black men grow up understanding that being viewed with suspicion is a fact of life, said Noah Cherry, a 19-year-old sophomore at Temple University. And it did not begin with the intensive search for Police Officer Chuck Cassidy's killer.
Officer dies; police press manhunt
The first full day in the hunt for Police Officer Chuck Cassidy's killer ended with officials posting a larger reward for the tattooed assailant, federal agents joining the search, and new details emerging about the last moments before the officer was shot.
Annette John-Hall | Driven to profile young black males
I am a black woman who was raised by a black man, married a black man, and gave birth to a black son. I love black men. I am sustained by them. I know first-hand how loving they can be.
Officer's shooting shakes city
The robber who shot and gravely injured Police Officer Charles Cassidy at an East Oak Lane Dunkin' Donuts - and launched the largest manhunt in recent history - escaped with nothing. Police and a witness said Cassidy interrupted the robber, who turned and fired one round into the officer's head. The robber then fled, picking up the fallen officer's handgun along the way.
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