Murder warrant approved in Haverford Twp. fatal shooting

A murder warrant was approved Friday for Derrick Rollins, the Philadelphia man suspected of fatally shooting a 29-year-old man in Haverford Township in an apparently random attack in July, police said.

Rollins, 24, was brought to Philadelphia on Friday afternoon from Georgia, where he had been hiding before his arrest last week, said Lt. John Walker of Southwest Detectives.

Rollins was also facing two counts of attempted murder for a shooting spree in Overbrook Park that occurred 45 minutes before John Le was fatally shot on July 29. Le was gunned down while walking in the 2300 block of Haverford Road to visit a friend. No one was injured in the shooting spree.

Rollins, who has a long criminal record, was being held in Philadelphia, but was expected at some point to be taken to Haverford Township to be charged there, Walker said.

The U.S. Marshals Service arrested Rollins on Aug. 22 in Decatur, just outside of Atlanta. He had been hiding at an apartment complex with a woman.

Police said Rollins fired 17 shots at people in Overbrook Park before going to Haverford.

Rollins did not know Le, a graduate of Lower Merion High School and Temple University, and it appeared that nothing was stolen from Le. According to one police theory, Rollins shot Le in a botched robbery attempt.