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Carjacking suspect shot, killed by Philadelphia police after firing shots at officers, leading them on chase
By Tom Ignudo, Jessica MacAulay, Brandon Goldner, Jon Claudio, Jim McHugh, Alicia Roberts
A carjacking suspect was shot and killed by Philadelphia police in Crescentville after allegedly firing shots at officers and leading them on a chase Monday night, authorities said.Police said the chase ended around 8 p.m. at Langdon Street and Roosevelt Boulevard, where multiple officers shot at the suspect. Police identified the suspect on Tuesday as 51-year-old Jerome Cooper.
Cooper was taken to Jefferson Einstein Hospital and died due to his injuries, police said.
Police said the suspect, later identified as Cooper, was wanted for allegedly shooting a 32-year-old man and stealing his car from the Public Storage facility located near G Street and Hunting Park Avenue in North Philadelphia, shortly after 7 p.m.
Officers went to the Public Storage facility, where they found the victim suffering from a gunshot wound in the abdomen and learned his Toyota Camry had been stolen.
Police alleged that at some point during the confrontation between Cooper and the victim, a 29-year-old man at the storage facility exchanged gunfire with Cooper in front of the building. According to police, Cooper then jumped in the Toyota Camry, sped away while continuing to fire his weapon.
Highway patrol officers initiated a pursuit after they saw the stolen car near 2nd Street and Cheltenham Avenue at around 7:53 p.m., police said. Investigators said the suspect led police on a chase through several neighborhoods, and at one point fired at officers, but none were hit.
The chase ended along the 4600 block of Roosevelt Boulevard, across from Friends Hospital, where the man hit a tree. When he got out of the car, police said Cooper raised his gun at police, and then seven officers fired at the man. He was hit several times and died.
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City of Brotherly Love again. Thanks, Gun Bunny.
No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.
Theodore Roosevelt
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Filthy-Delphia… *sigh* Cue up Sir Elton. Celebrate the freedom of one less parasite…that didn’t obey the law.
Every time I visit the Henry page, I gets slobber all over my screen. Every.Single.Time!
Side bar Feel Good Story for the Haters of All Things Gun Bunny this morning. The King of Battle…THE King of FIRST will be off the net and gone dark for the next 5 + days, meaning that the competition for the vaunted TAH Friday WOT will be wide open. Iffen y’all let the Stoned Hacker swoop in and beat you out…well…don’t blame me. Here’s your shot at it, Slow Joe. Now…quit yer bitchin’!
We will “Say their Names”…”We Will be their Witnesses”!
Are your hired goons still out to break Hack Stone’s remaining ribs? You already got three, isn’t that enough?
Looks like a job opening for Hack Stone’s personal security detail in his North Philadelphia Branch. In lieu of flowers, please consider purchasing some outdated and overpriced Red Hat Software.
Another reminder of why I don’t need to go to Philadelphia, ever.
That Henry looks a bit Frankensteined to me, but “if it’s stupid and it works, it ain’t stupid.”
Somebody needs to bring back the Ruger 44. It was a helluva a truck gun and beat up examples are clearing nearly $1800 these days when you can find one.
I still have and use a Winchester Trapper .44mag. 16” barrel, saddle ring, and Light weight and a good all around carry for fishing back country. Bought years ago for a few hundred bucks. A nicer finish than any of the new firearms today, better built too.
Ruger Model 44 – Wikipedia
I got a chance at 1 of these back in the 1990’s. Bought it for about $300.00, for, and gave it to my brother, who already had a 10-22 (matched set?). After we got it sighted in, he never really used it but passed it along to his oldest SIL who has killed numerous deer with it and whose 2 sons and daughter have all killed (multiple) deer with it. Worth every penny I paid for it.
As a bonus, I bought it from a gear queer who never was and never could, who couldn’t even hunt and kill a deer and blamed it on the rifle.
I was one of the ones bugging Henry to use STANAG magazines and am thrilled they did. It’s just that its proportions are so, well … ugly.
Arw you more concerned with looks, or function?
Function any day.
But some good proportions always enhance beauty