In the early hours of the morning, a quadruple shooting occurred in the Lawncrest neighborhood of northeast Philadelphia, leaving three individuals dead and one wounded.
on Monday shot and killed a man suspected in a quadruple shooting hours earlier that left three people dead, authorities said.
The quadruple shooting took place shortly before 5 a.m. in the Lawncrest section of northeast Philadelphia. The police department's interim commissioner, John Stanford, said police responding to a home found three people dead and one person wounded who was taken to a hospital in BLUE CITY POLICE CHIEF RESIGNED AFTER BEING 'HAMSTRUNG' BY CITY HALL'S CRIME POLICIES: MAYORAL CANDIDATEThree hours later, in the East Mount Airy section of northwest Philadelphia, officers tried to pull over a vehicle reported fleeing the shooting location, Stanford said. The man in the vehicle, believed to be responsible for the shooting, fired at least one round at police, and officers returned fire, hitting him, Stanford said.
The names of the suspect and the shooting victims, who Stanford said were related, were not immediately released. Get all the stories you need-to-know from the most powerful name in news delivered first thing every morning to your inbox
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