Witnesses who watched a suspect pin an officer with a vehicle spoke out about the incident.
Broken glass and crime scene tape are all that’s left from the end of a chaotic scene Thursday night on the Adams Avenue Bridge over the Tacony Creek.It all started when a Philadelphia police officer tried to pull over a white sedan on F Street and Roosevelt Boulevard. But police say the driver didn’t stop and the officer followed. Three witnesses in cars helped block the driver in on the bridge.But police say he still didn’t stop.
The suspect’s car was found in an ally on the 200 block of Banner Street, about a half mile away. The driver was shot in the torso and taken to Einstein Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead a short time later.Octavia Newton, in town working from South Carolina, watched it all go down."They were everywhere. They taped off the streets, they taped off here they came down a gurney and a stretcher and they got the gentleman from the car," witness Newton said.
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