Cell phone video taken by a nearby resident shows officers taking cover on the corner of Leiper and Arrott Streets as the gunman fires down on them from the second-floor window of the corner property.
Police officers direct people away from the scene of a shooting in Philadelphia, Wednesday, April 6, 2022. PHILADELPHIA — A SEPTA transit police officer was hospitalized in critical but stable condition after gun battle erupted Wednesday evening between police and a man suspected of shooting two women in the city’s Frankford section.
Two SEPTA police officers embrace at Temple University Hospital after a transit officer was shot on the 4700 block of Leiper Street. Elizabeth Robertson / Staff PhotographerAround 7 p.m., officers responded to the sound of gunshots near the Arrott Transportation Center and found two women with gunshot wounds at Arrott and Griscom Streets, police said.
The officer pulls himself up and staggers west on Arrott Street, away from the house, as other police exchange gunfire with the shooter.
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