Commissioner Ross called the eruption of violence that began after 11pm on Friday “completely bizarre” and said he thought that the gunman, who was shot and killed by police officers after he fled into an alley, had acted alone.
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Police Commissioner Richard Ross said police found a note at the scene of last night’s rampage that left a woman dead and five people wounded, including two police officers.
The gunman was “driven by hatred”, police spokesman John Stanford said on Twitter. “. You can’t get your brain around it”.
He added that “obviously he was hell-bent on hurting a lot of people – we still aren’t absolutely clear as to why”.
But “we have no reason at this point to believe” Friday’s shooting “is related to any beliefs of a religious nature or anything like that, just feelings about police departments and police officers in general and probation officers”, said Ross. Authorities have said that shooter, Edward Archer, later pledged loyalty to the Islamic State. A woman died in the shooting, police said on Saturday.
SKYFOX was over the scene where shots rang out near 51st and Sansom Streets around 11:20 p.m. Friday.
Police say a female sergeant with the Philadelphia police was injured along with an officer from the University of Pennsylvania. Young at close range 18 times with a 9mm Ruger, according to police. Fortunately, at least one or two were lodged in her ballistic vest. That letter, which authorities believe was indeed written by Glenn, directly named Nicholas’ target: a parole officer.
Aside from the officers, the identities of the suspect and others shot in the spree were not immediately released.
On Sansom Street, near 51st, he fired into a bar, the Maximum Level Lounge, wounding a security guard.
He then used a woman from the bar as a shield before shooting her.
A 25-year-old woman in the auto was struck seven times in the torso, police said, and died of her injuries. A man who was also inside the vehicle was also shot at, with the man now in critical condition.
Police said he ambushed a police sergeant as she sat in her auto, shot two people as he was fleeing police, fired into a vehicle, killing a 25-year-old woman and injuring a man, and wounded another officer before police killed him in an alley. The university officer was shot in the buttocks and the leg.
He said there was no indication that the shooter had been radicalized – in possible contrast to a man in the same neighborhood who opened fire on a police officer early tis year and said he had done so “in the name of terrorism”.
Mayor Jim Kenney praised the police and pleaded with officers to follow Young’s example of wearing protective vests.
Four officers were believed to have discharged their weapons, police said. Young and other officers for their bravery. So we are happy, very blessed that that’s the way it turned out.
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They opened fire, killing Glenn, but not before Miller also sustaining non life threatening injuries. “I remember visiting him frequently and he had to be pulled out of solitary and I remember he was having a very hard time in dealing with the solitary confinement”.
