Police are reviewing video footage and interviewing witnesses in North Philadelphia after two officers opened fire on a 33-year-old man.
Police are reviewing video footage and interviewing witnesses in North Philadelphia after two officers opened fire on a 33-year-old man who, according to a police spokesperson, hadThe man, identified Friday as Curtis Smith, was pronounced dead at 3:06 p.m. Thursday at Temple University Hospital.around 2:20 p.m. Thursday after he fled down the 2200 block of North Camac Street during a police investigation into a possible stolen vehicle.
Phillip Smith, who answered the telephone Friday at a number linked through public records to Curtis Smith’s address, said he saw the pursuit. He said one of the officers shot Curtis Smith several times in the back, but he declined to elaborate before hanging up.His description was similar to an account by a woman at the scene Thursday who said she was a friend of Smith’s grandmother. She declined to provide her name.Gripp, the police spokesperson, said Smith was not fleeing when he was shot.
Smith, who was registered to vote at an address on 12th Street near Susquehanna Avenue, one block from the shooting, has several arrests dating to 2009 and two open court cases on drug and firearms offenses, according to court records.
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