2 cops shot, suspect and bystander killed in West Philly rampage

[Independent voter]

Okay, I can understand why black people are mad, they've heard all their lives how police are rough when it comes to dealing with black people. Black people read about all these incidents on social media and it makes them mad. But shooting cops? Seriously? Public servants?

I assume it's a black shooter.

Looks like the cops survived which is good news.






http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20...ladelphia.html

A gunman ambushed a Philadelphia police sergeant late Friday night, firing more than a dozen rounds before taking off, and then shot four civilians and a University of Pennsylvania police officer during his flight before he was finally cornered and killed by police.

Investigators look over the wounded police sergeant´s patrol car, Saturday Sept. 17, 2016, on Sansom Street near South 52nd Street in West Philadelphia, after a gunman shot two police officers and four civilians.

Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross identified the gunman Saturday as 25-year-old Nicholas Glenn, reportedly of West Philadelphia.

Briefing reporters earlier Saturday morning outside Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where the wounded officers and other victims had been taken, Ross called the chain of events "a completely bizarre situation."

During his attempt to flee after shooting the sergeant, Glenn also shot a security guard and a patron at a bar, and two people inside a vehicle, Ross said.

Both victims in the car, a man and a woman, were taken to the hospital where the woman, reportedly in her 20s, was later pronounced dead, police said. The man remains in critical condition.

In the hours after the shootings, police flooded the area looking for possible accomplices, but after a couple hours determined that the shooter had acted alone.

"We believe this is isolated to this individual," Ross said.

What was left to do was figure out what happened and why it happened.

Ross said police found a "rambling" letter allegedly written by the gunman in which he expressed hatred toward police and probation officers. He said there was no reason to believe at this point that the gunman had any religious beliefs that drove him to the shootings.

Employees at the Central City Toyota dealership, whose back end faces Sansom Street, said on Saturday that Glenn had ducked underneath a partially opened garage door there to hide from police at one point during the rampage.

The dealership's cleaning crew, the only people in the building at the time, spotted him hiding among the tires, the employees said. Glenn apparently did not see them. He then fled out a back door.

Police would later corner him in an alley a few yards down the block.

According to court records, Glenn had a history of drug-possession convictions in Philadelphia. He had also been arrested and charged in connection with a gang-related rape in a November 2009 incident, but these charges were later dropped.

On the night of Nov. 19, 2009, a 24-year-old woman had allegedly been accosted by six men near 56th and Walnut Streets after she had gone out to get takeout food. She was allegedly forced into a nearby apartment building and raped. The woman had been treated and released at Episcopal Hospital. Court records show prosecutors dropped charges against Glenn in the rape case in December 2011. It was not clear why.

Ross gave this account of what happened Friday night:

At 11:19 p.m., Sgt. Sylvia Young, 46, a 19-year veteran assigned to North Philadelphia's 22d Police District but who was working with a task force in West Philadelphia Friday, was in a marked police cruiser at 52nd and Sansom Streets when the gunman approached. He started firing.

"She didn't hear him say a word," Ross said.

Young, trapped in the vehicle, couldn't do anything but lean over into the passenger side until the firing stopped, Ross said.

She heard at least 15 shots. She was struck in her left arm and in her protective vest.

Other officers, seeing that Young had been shot, started chasing the suspect east on Sansom.

On Sansom Street, near 51st, he fired into a bar, the Maximum Level Lounge, wounding a security guard. Then, he grabbed a woman and "uses her as a shield," Ross said.

Then the suspect shot her in the leg and resumed running east on Sansom.

At 49th and Sansom, he came across a white vehicle and fired multiple times into it, striking a man and a woman in the chest. The woman later died of her injuries, while the man is listed in critical condition.

In a north-south alley at 48th and Sansom, the Penn police officer followed by two Philadelphia police officers confronted the male, and fired, killing the suspect, Ross said. The Penn officer was wounded in that action.

The shooter had no ID on him, Ross said.

Mayor Kenney said he visited the officers and said both were alert and talking.

The Penn officer, identified as Eddie Miller, 56, a former Philadelphia police sergeant who joined Penn's force two years ago, was cracking jokes, the mayor added.

"All in all, it was a terrible scary night," Kenney said.

The mayor said he wanted to thank all police officers for their service and remind them to wear their vests.

Effective immediately, officers will be patrolling in pairs, Ross said.

Neighbors up and down Sansom Street heard gunshots late Friday night and ran for the kitchen or the bathroom - any room in their house without windows.

At 52nd and Sansom, a resident on Saturday said she heard six to 10 shots in quick succession. Dozens of cops swarmed the street.

Rafeeq Woodford, 26, was on Walnut Street walking his bike home - he lives in an apartment building next door to the Maximum Level Lounge. He was on the phone with his girlfriend, he said, when he heard the barrage of shots at Sansom and saw police cars fly past.

He headed for the corner store at 51st and Sansom - that's when a plainclothes officer, gun in hand, told him to get back. Another officer shone a light in his face and told him to show his hands, Woodford said.

The officer had Woodford sit down "for a while" as he checked the description of the shooter. Then the officer's radio buzzed: The shooter had been found, "all the way down 49th," Woodford said he heard.

Woodford maneuvered his way through a street swarming with cops and made it home. His mother is a regular customer at the Maximum Level, but was not in the bar that night, he said. Blood stained the wall and the sidewalk outside the bar on Saturday morning.

"That scared me," Woodford said of his experience. "It's normally really quiet here, not a lot of people or traffic."

On Sansom between 48th and 49th Streets, police had drawn chalk circles where eight shell casings fell. In an alley off 48th Street, a surgical glove lay near a large bloodstain. Police had again circled where shell casings fell - four in the alley, three on a stoop and one on the sidewalk. Four bullet fragments were embedded in the concrete wall next to the alley.

Janice Smith, in her kitchen on 48th Street, heard five or six shots from the alley behind her house, then a helicopter whirring overheard. Then she heard more shots, first from behind her house, then in front, she said. "The living room lit up like firecrackers" from the lights of the police cars outside, she said.

"Chaos," she said. "Pure chaos."

At one point, she said she heard a police officer say "Drop your weapon!"

Later, after the gunshots had ended, she walked onto her front porch and filmed dozens of squad cars lining the street, lights whirling, and a cluster of officers at the entrance to the alley down the block.

"I've been here since 1973," she said, "and I never experienced anything like that."

As word came out on the shootings, local and national figures began tweeting on it, including Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams, who wrote: "Please keep the @phillyPolice SGT, @PennDPS P/O shot tonight their families, friends & co-workers in your prayers as they deal w/ trauma."

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump tweeted:

"My thoughts and prayers go out to the @phillyPolice & @Penn police officers - in Philadelphia."

The ambush on the police sergeant was reminiscent of the Jan. 7 nighttime shooting when a gunman walked up to a patrol car at 60th and Spruce Streets in West Philadelphia and without warning, shot and seriously injured Philadelphia Police Officer Jesse Hartnett, now 34.

The alleged gunman in Hartnett's shooting, Edward Archer, now 31, of Yeadon, later confessed to police that he had carried out the shooting "in the name of Islam" and said he had sworn allegiance to ISIS, authorities have said. Archer, in custody, faces trial on attempted murder and related charges.

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What a dick

[MatthewOU2015]

Animals nothing but animals

[tss]

At least BLM is helping to reduce black-on-black crime by encouraging the more unstable ones to shoot cops and white people.

[Kalis]

This is the suspected shooter...



This is Sgt. Sylvia Young, who he shot at first...

[Dextroden]

And things continue to breakdown. Completely fucking unnecessary.

I'm sure he thought he did something meaningful all the way to his removal.

[Orlong]

This is the suspected shooter...

Love how you call him the "suspected" shooter when there is a 0% chance that he is NOT the shooter. Way to stick up for a scumbag again!

[Themius]

At least BLM is helping to reduce black-on-black crime by encouraging the more unstable ones to shoot cops and white people.

So what does "in the name of islam" have to do with BLM?

Hell for once this seems to be motivated by Islam as the guy said it, but in this case the shift seems to be towards BLM and not... Islam.

The alleged gunman in Hartnett's shooting, Edward Archer, now 31, of Yeadon, later confessed to police that he had carried out the shooting "in the name of Islam" and said he had sworn allegiance to ISIS, authorities have said. Archer, in custody, faces trial on attempted murder and related charges.

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Love how you call him the "suspected" shooter when there is a 0% chance that he is NOT the shooter. Way to stick up for a scumbag again!

Oh look what Kalis does to me is now happening to him.

[Dextroden]

So what does "in the name of islam" have to do with BLM?

Hell for once this seems to be motivated by Islam as the guy said it, but in this case the shift seems to be towards BLM and not... Islam.



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Oh look what Kalis does to me is now happening to him.

Remember how the pulse shooter swearing allegiance to ISIS didn't count? The same applies here or everyone was full of shit.

[Azadina]

I'm not sure what people expect, when they arm the population, not caring about whether the people they arm are mentally stable enough to own weapons or not. The only shock value at this point, is that no one cares to do anything about it, despite these being a daily occurrence.

[Dextroden]

I'm not sure what people expect, when they arm the population, not caring about whether the people they arm are mentally stable enough to own weapons or not. The only shock value at this point, is that no one cares to do anything about it, despite these being a daily occurrence.

Gun control post. Check.

[Azadina]

Gun control post. Check.

I'm just wondering how these are news worthy, when it's accepted occurrence?

[Kalis]

Love how you call him the "suspected" shooter when there is a 0% chance that he is NOT the shooter. Way to stick up for a scumbag again!

I just used the same terminology that Hubcap used in the headline.

[ParanoiD84]

Good thing they killed the guy on the spot, no need for people like that on the streets.

[Kalis]

Oh look what Kalis does to me is now happening to him.

Slightly different, as at no point have I said anything like "It is such a shame, he could have turned his life around." Mainly because I don't give a flying fuck about some bloke that pulls a gun on someone else getting shot and actually shooting innocent people is going to elicit zero sympathy from me.

[Templar 331]

"Ross said police found a "rambling" letter allegedly written by the gunman in which he expressed hatred toward police and probation officers."

"According to court records, Glenn had a history of drug-possession convictions in Philadelphia."

This is why I have no love for "non-violent drug offenders." They are still criminals who willingly break the law. Keep them locked up.

[Themius]

Slightly different, as at no point have I said anything like "It is such a shame, he could have turned his life around." Mainly because I don't give a flying fuck about some bloke that pulls a gun on someone else getting shot and actually shooting innocent people is going to elicit zero sympathy from me.

I said the same thing about the heroine drugged up grandmother... there i feel the same it's a shame i feel bad for the grandmother. No one truly wants to be like that, people make mistakes.

[Kalis]

I said the same thing about the heroine drugged up grandmother... there i feel the same it's a shame i feel bad for the grandmother. No one truly wants to be like that, people make mistakes.

What heroin addled granny? Did she commit a crime? If so then you have missed the point.


In this story my sympathy lies with the women I posted a picture of and all the other innocents who were shot. Nicholas Glenn dying I don't give a toss about, fuck him.

Similarly in the story of Tyre King, the person who gained my sympathy was the victim of the armed robbery, not the armed robber who died after pulling a gun on police. Fuck Tyre King too.

Do you see the pattern? The innocent victims of crime get my sympathy, not the perpetrators.

[Jingoism]

https://www.scribd.com/doc/305240780/The-Color-of-Crime

Trouble dealing with the cops? They have trouble stopping themselves from committing crime.

[Independent voter]

Somethings got to be done about social media. You can bet on social media they didn't say anything about the BB gun that Tyre kid was carrying they said "police shot that child down like a dog".

This kind of talk makes people angry. Not sure it's what happened in this case but I wouldn't be surprised.