UPDATE: Man who allegedly threatened to throw his baby off I-95 overpass in Philadelphia identified
Christine King said she was driving near the Cottman Avenue exit when she spotted a man threatening to throw a child off the overpass.The man who was arrested for allegedly threatening the mother of his child and their baby, including a threat to throw the baby off an Interstate 95 overpass in Northeast Philadelphia, has been identified.
According to investigators, it all began when Murphy pulled out a gun during a domestic argument with the mother of his child and threatened her life, the baby's life, and his own. Action News spoke with the good Samaritan, Christine King of Bensalem, Bucks County, who helped save the child."I couldn't just pass after I saw the baby. And after I seen him trying to throw the baby over, I couldn't let it go," King said."I said, 'Give me the baby.' And I put my hand around the baby to pull the baby from him while she was trying to pull the baby too, and I said, 'Give me the baby.' He said, 'Get off my baby, I will shoot you.
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