Philadelphia police later identified the suspect shot and killed as 25-year-old Nicholas Glenn, a local man with a long criminal record. The shooter was killed during the gun fight, police said.
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“Right now we have a lot of questions”. That woman died just before 2 a.m. Saturday.
A note inside “indicated his hatred toward his probation/parole officers and police, among other unclear statements”, police said.
He said Glenn was well-known to police and they believe he acted alone and not as part of any group.
A gunman who wounded two Philadelphia police officers and three civilians and killed a fourth civilian appears to have opened fire because he was driven by hatred for the police, officials said on Saturday. Ross said there is no reason to believe the suspect was “radicalized” after searching multiple addresses linked to him.
Ross added that officers uncovered a note at the scene of the shooting that said the gunman hated police and probation officers, according to CNN. Moments later, the suspect shot into in a auto, hitting a man and a woman in the chest.
He was cornered in an alley by three officers who chased him through crowded Philadelphia streets while he fired indiscriminately at passersby.
The gunman ambushed an officer sitting in her police vehicle, firing off 18 rounds and hitting her eight times before taking off to continue a shooting spree that injured four others and left a civilian woman dead. The shooter wounded a University of Pennsylvania police officer in this engagement.
5 says University of Pennsylvania police officer Ed Miller was released on Sunday after receiving treatment for gunshot wounds to his hip and ankle.
Miller, 56, and Young, 46, were in stable condition Saturday at Penn Presbyterian Hospital, as were the three civilians also hit by gunfire. “Our hearts and our prayers go out to her family in particular as well as all the other victims”, said Commissioner Ross.
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Young radioed for backup as the ambush started around 11:20 p.m. ET Friday.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump offered his condolences to the Penn and Philadelphia police officers in a tweet.
The city’s police chief said he wasn’t sure whether Glenn was motivated by anti-police sentiment or whether he was mentally unbalanced.
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“Six months isn’t enough data to know if this is the beginning of something very bad or an anomaly”, says David Harris, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. One officer was cracking jokes with his kids and wife. Police say officers will be riding two to a auto until further notice. The suspect reportedly used a woman as a human shield to protect himself from officers.
