Philadelphia police have opened an internal affairs investigation after a video showed multiple officers smashing the windows of an SUV driven by a Black mother with her 2-year-old son and 16-year-old nephew inside during protests over the killing of Walter Wallace Jr., NBC Philadephia reported. Rickia Young had driven into the protest area early Tuesday …
A Pennsylvania woman missing for more than a month was killed by a man she met on the train, her body hidden in an elevator shaft before it was moved to an overgrown lot in Philadelphia’s East Germantown neighborhood, the Delaware County district attorney said this week. District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer said that Kareem Malik …
A Philadelphia woman charged with the attempted murder of her 7-year-old son may now face murder charges after the boy died of his injuries on Wednesday, WPVI reported. Tazmir Ransom was rushed to the hospital Sunday evening experiencing difficulty breathing, police said. While there, medical staff determined he had severe injuries. Police arrested Tazmir’s mother, …
Philadelphia’s city transit system SEPTA said Friday it would no longer enforce a policy requiring passengers to wear a facemask during the coronavirus pandemic after a viral video showed police officers forcibly dragging a man off a bus because he wasn’t wearing one. SEPTA said the incident, which took place Friday morning, was under investigation, …
Authorities in Pennsylvania are looking for a man who they said robbed a convenience store last week. The Philadelphia Police Department released surveillance footage taken at a Rite Aid on January 3 at 11:57 a.m. An unknown man entered the store and appeared as if he was going to make a purchase before he allegedly gave …
After a nearly year-long investigation, Philadelphia police have charged a 64-year-old woman in the death of her 32-year-old quadriplegic daughter last December. Yelena Nezhikhovskaya, 63, was arrested on Saturday and charged with third degree murder, false reporting, and drug delivery resulting in death, 6ABC reported. Police and emergency medical personnel responded to the northeast Philadelphia …
A Philadelphia man has been accused of buying a shotgun, bringing it home on the subway, and then shooting each member of his family as they came home from work or school, NBC Philly reported. Maurice Louis, 29, has been charged with four counts of murder in the shooting deaths of his mother, Janet Woodson, …
Two men are in custody in connection with the weekend shooting death of a 2-year-old girl who died in her mother’s arms in Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood, police say, according to CBS Philly. The toddler was killed on Sunday when a man stood outside the home firing an AK-47 into it, police said. A single bullet …
A gunman firing into a Philadelphia home killed a 2-year-old girl and wounded her mother and a man Sunday afternoon, 6 ABC reported. The little girl was shot in the back of the head and pronounced dead on the scene, police said. The 24-year-old mother was hit on the side of the head and in …
Philadelphia police are looking for an “armed and dangerous” man they say threatened his former employer and police officers, NBC 10 reports. Michael John Altomari, 31, had an argument with his girlfriend in the city’s Mayfair neighborhood and then left after loading up several firearms in a duffel bag, police said. The girlfriend said Altomari …
Authorities in Pennsylvania say a fellow officer has died from what appears to be a self-inflicted gunshot. According to Fox News, 27-year-old Dante Austin was the first openly gay deputy in the history of the Philadelphia Sheriff’s Office. “Dante was a person who believed in and cared about everybody,” recalled Sheriff Jewell Williams. How do …
