During a barricade situation in Philadelphia Wednesday morning, three SWAT team officers were shot.
The officers serving an arrest warrant were wounded and a suspect was killed during a shooting in North Philadelphia.
It happened around 6:30 a.m. Wednesday at the intersection of 8th and Brown streets.
Officers were serving a warrant on a suspect wanted for homicide and other violent offenses.
Police say the 19-year-old suspect tried to exit the rear of the home. He fired at the officers who were in the backyard and the officers fired back.
One officer was shot in the hip, another in the leg and the third in the chest.
The suspect was also shot in the head during the incident and was being treated at the hospital. However, he was later pronounced dead by hospital doctors and medical staff.
Authorities reported that all three officers are in stable condition and are seeking the medical treatment they need at Jefferson University Hospital.
In audio from police radio obtained by Action News, one of the injured officers called in after being shot.
“We got two officers shot. We are en route to Jefferson Hospital…let them know, I’m shot in the hip. My partner is shot in the leg,” the officer said.
An aerial view from a helicopter’s footage, shows children being escorted out of the home. Moments later, officers took two people away in handcuffs including an adult male.
Though a barricade situation was reported during the incident, police say there was never a barricade as the suspect tried to flee the home.
The incident underscored the gun violence epidemic in the City of Brotherly Love, where murders had soared since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Philadelphia police had reported 424 homicides in 2022 through Wednesday, marking a 2% decrease from last year’s record-high murder rate, but a 58% increase since 2019. In comparison, New York City, home to nearly six times as many people as Philly, had recorded only 334 murders so far this year.
The issue of crime in Pennsylvania had taken center stage in the contest for the state’s hotly contested US Senate seat, now held by retiring GOP Sen. Pat Toomey.
Republican candidate Dr. Mehmet Oz, the television personality, had recently gained ground in the polls against Democratic candidate John Fetterman, who he has branded “soft on crime” in political attacks.
Oz, 62 had pointed to Fetterman’s prior endorsement of progressive Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, who is facing impeachment from state GOP lawmakers over his “willful refusal … to enforce existing laws.”
Fetterman, 53, the state’s lieutenant governor, shot back at Oz’s claims during a campaign stop in Philly on Tuesday, championing a stretch of six murder-free years he presided over as mayor of the Braddock, a small town outside Pittsburgh, and doubling down on his work as an advocate for wrongfully convicted criminals.
Fetterman’s 9-percentage point summertime lead over the Donald Trump-backed political novice had recently shrunk to 3.7 percentage points.
These officers put their lives on the line everyday, for a city that has no moral or legal compass. I feel so sorry for the officers families to put their lives in harms way while the Mayor (Scum Bag) Democrat and his Filthy, Disgusting DA, (Hand Picked by George Soros) defund the police as well as release the murdering scum back on the streets. Think about all the business’s that were looted and destroyed by the BLM riots and this pussy DA and Mayor, blaming the fine police of the city, rather than the BLM scum. No one ever paid for that, they had these people on camera, the city looked the other way while their Democrat Storm Troopers acted in lock step with the Democratic Black Caucus and the rest of the Democratic party, similar to Adolf Hitler and his Brown Shirts. Here’s your Democrat Party, the new NAZI Party.
The letters BLM do not belong to black lives matter and they are breaking the law by using them.
Our government is to pussified to say anything. The letters BLM belong to the United States Government (Bureau) of (Land )(Management). Google it and see for yourself. If black lives really mattered to blacks then why are they still killing each other . Stupid is as stupid does.