Officer Opens Fire on Carjacking Suspect After Pursue Through Northeast Philadelphia: Police
NBC10’s Rosemary Connors reports that Philadelphia Police arrested two suspects following a pair of carjacking and a pursuit that ended in Pennypack Park but not before one suspect allegedly pointed a gun at an officer.
(Published Thursday, Jul 27, 2017)
A Philadelphia Police officer opened fire after following two stolen vehicles through Northeast Philadelphia neighborhoods early Thursday morning.
Police put out a citywide assist call as a large presence of officers descended on Horrocks and Strahle streets in the city’s Rhawnhurst neighborhood as the pursue ended before daybreak.
The pursuit — not described a high-speed pursue but rather police following the suspects — began about three miles away in the city’s Oxford Circle neighborhood, police said. An officer witnessed a stolen vehicle along the six thousand six hundred block of Eastwood Street around Four:35 a.m. and began to go after that driver. Other officers joined in to go after another vehicle meeting the description of latest carjackings, investigators said.
One suspect was behind the wheel of a white Toyota Camry that was stolen from a security guard around Four:20 a.m. Thursday in the lot of a bank at Bustleton Avenue and President Street — more than four miles from Eastwood Street, Philadelphia Police Public Affairs Capt. Sekou Kinebrew said.
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Philadelphia Police Capt. Sekou Kinebrew violates down the events that led police in pursuit of two stolen vehicles that ended with two fellows in custody after one of them allegedly pointed a gun at an officer who fired one shot at him.
That man had hopped out of a Hyundai Tuscon that was stolen sometime after midnight in Fairless Hills, Bucks County, Kinebrew said. Both drivers then drove off before being spotted about fifteen minutes later.
The guys bailed out of the vehicles at Horrocks and Strahle and ran off into nearby forest, investigators said.
As the man driving the Camry got out of the car, he pointed a gun at an officer who then fired one shot, Kinebrew said.
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No one was shot and there were no reports of injuries.
Police captured both suspects separately in Pennypack Park and could be seen loading one man into a police wagon a brief time later. The studs awaited charges Thursday morning.
Kinebrew said investigators were still attempting to find out if the guys in the Tuscon were the same fellows who carjacked the vehicle from Bucks County earlier Thursday.
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“we’re not sure at this point if the people that committed the Fairless Hills carjacking were the people in the car, we suspect they were but we indeed need to bang that down,” Kinebrew said.
Police also continued to comb the park for the gun the man allegedly pointed at the officer.
Kinebrew said it appeared originally that the officer was justified in the shooting.
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“The officer has a right and a duty to defend himself and anyone else present in those type of exchanges or encounters,” Kinebrew said.
Police identified that suspects as Tyrik Robinson, Legitimate, of Magee Avenue and Nacir Breland, Nineteen, of West Erie Avenue.