She contended that an imam there had “lied” when he said Archer was not associated with the mosque. The next year, he went to Egypt for reasons that are unclear and spent several months there.
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Officers investigate the scene of a shooting Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, in Philadelphia.
Two days after a Philadelphia cop was shot by a man who said he had pledged loyalty to the Islamic State, the city’s police and the FBI are investigating a tip that the man was part of a group with radical beliefs that might still pose a threat. His condition was classified as critical but stable on Saturday.
Ross called it “absolutely amazing” that Harnett survived.
A law enforcement source told Fox News that city police and the FBI were investigating the tip, which came from a woman who stopped an officer on the street Saturday night. “That is abhorrent. It’s just awful, and it does not represent the religion in any way, shape or form or any of its teachings”. The shooter will have to carry a pillow for awhile to sit down when he, as the London newspapers famously put it in accounts of such cases, “assists police in their investigation”. A brief struggle ensued and, with the assistance of Penn security and other officers, the officer was able to subdue the man and prevent him from obtaining the handgun.
“I follow Allah. I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic State, and that’s why I did what I did”, Archer told the authorities after his arrest, police Capt. James Clark said.
Authorities in Philadelphia say that Archer shot Officer Jesse Hartnett multiple times in an assassination attempt in West Philadelphia late Thursday night. The father returned with two police officers, but the attackers fled. “I’m shot! I’m bleeding heavily”.
“There was blood everywhere on the street”, the officer said. With his good arm, he fired at Archer, hitting him in the buttocks as he ran away. Officials said they were trying to figure how Archer got the weapon and whether it passed through other people’s hands in the time since the theft.
A GoFundme page created to collect funds for the family of wounded officer Jesse Hartnett has surpassed its goal of $15,000 just a day after being created. A gunman claiming to have pledged allegiance to Islamic State militants shot and seriously wounded a Philadelphia police officer in an ambush on his patrol vehicle, the city’s police commissioner said on Friday.
Archer studied Arabic at a local mosque a few years ago, said members of the mosque.
“He certainly was targeting police”, Ross said.
Reached at her home in Yeadon, Archer’s mother, Valerie Holliday, said he was the eldest of seven children. “He wasn’t what you would call radicalized or nothing like that”, she said.
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“He’s been acting kind of unusual lately”. He’s been talking to himself… laughing and mumbling. “He’s been hearing voices in his head”.
