The blood keeps flowing in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Police Department’s Current Crime Statistics page listed, as of 9:45 AM EDT on Monday, October 4, 2021, 418 homicides in the City of Brotherly Love, as of 11:59 PM EDT on October 3rd. 418 ÷ 276 days of the year = 1.5145 per day, x 365 = 552.79 murders projected for the entire year.
Trouble is, since the end of the Labor Day weekend, there have been 55 homicides in the past 27 days, 2.037 per day. If that rate continued over the remaining 89 days of the year, that would be another 181 murders, for a total of 599 for the year!
With 89 days left in the year, the city has moved up from its 16th deadliest year to 14th.
Nursing assistant killed by coworker at Jefferson University Hospital, two Philadelphia police officers shot
The victim was a 43-year-old man who worked as a certified nursing assistant. The suspect, 55, fled the scene in a U-Haul van and ended up in a shootout with Philadelphia police officers in Parkside.
by Rob Tornoe and Anna Orso | Monday, October 4, 2021
A certified nursing assistant at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Center City was shot and killed by a coworker early Monday morning, according to police.
The suspect — a 55-year-old man, also a nursing assistant — then fled the scene in a U-Haul van and ended up in a shootout with Philadelphia police officers in the city’s Parkside section. Two officers were shot, and the suspect — who police said was wearing body armor and carrying multiple weapons — was shot and apprehended by police.
The victim, 43, was pronounced dead shortly after he was shot at the hospital.
Police are investigating a connection between the two coworkers. They did not identify either man Monday morning.
There’s more at the original, but Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw stated that her department and she believe it was an intentional, targeted killing, though the reason for it was not yet known. Given that the shooter had multiple weapons and body armor, it was clearly planned.
- One of the police officers was shot in the elbow and is in critical but stable condition. The other was shot in the nose and is in stable condition. Outlaw said the two officers that were shot have been on the police force less than six years.
For having shot two police officers, even though not fatally, District Attorney will probably offer the suspect a lenient plea bargain arrangement.