Police: One 15-Year-Old Shoots Another in Germantown
Philadelphia police say the incident took place about 3:15pm in the 400 block of E. Washington Lane. The vctim was shot in the chest.
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Philadelphia police say the incident took place about 3:15pm in the 400 block of E. Washington Lane. The vctim was shot in the chest.
Police are investigating a shooting Sunday afternoon that critically wounded a 15-year-old boy in Northwest Philadelphia.
In recent weeks investigators had been looking into two homes, in the 3500 and 3700 blocks of North 7th Street, in North Philadelphia.
Police say a two-year-old was hospitalized after a hit-and-run in South Philadelphia on Thursday.
Philadelphia police say an elderly food vendor was stabbed to death while loading his cart with supplies early Thursday morning.
Chief Inspector Sullivan says it's those who report suspicious packages, people, and behavior that will stop what happened in Boston, from happening here.
Police say a woman died after she fell off a roof in North Philadelphia on Wednesday night.
A student was taken into custody after investigators say he tried to bring a loaded gun into a high school in Northeast Philadelphia Wednesday morning.
"Philadelphia is at a heightened level of security at this point," said Mayor Nutter.
Police commissioner Charles Ramsey held a press conference to announce that during an audit conducted last week the department learned that one of the 1,356 M-16 rifles given to the PPD by the federal government in 2009 is unaccounted for.
The incident happened late Sunday night on the 3100 block of West Montgomery Avenue.
Philadelphia police are investigating a home invasion that sent an elderly man to the hospital.
The incident happened at about 5:12 p.m. on the 1200 block of South 52nd Street.
The incident happened at about 9:20 p.m. on the 6200 block of North 15th Street.
The incident happened at about 3:45 p.m. near 59th Street and Lancaster Avenue.
According to a statement read in court, the alleged killer of a Children's Hospital pediatrician says she pleaded for her life as he strangled her inside her Center City home in January.
Two people were injured after a car overturned following an accident in Northeast Philadelphia Wednesday morning.
A violent day in Philadelphia Tuesday continued well after the sun went down.
"The Department's official Twitter account has 17,789 followers," Commissioner Charles Ramsey said.
Tuesday evening, hundreds of bikers came from near and far to pay tribute to Captain Goodwin.
At least four people were shot in the Kensington section of Philadelphia on Tuesday night.
Chopper 3 HD was over the scene of a large disturbance of teens gathered in Center City on Tuesday afternoon.
Filming interrogations takes more than sticking a camera on a tripod, Ramsey told councilman Bill Greenlee during budget hearings.
Philadelphia police are investigating a deadly stabbing that happened early Tuesday morning.
The Philadelphia Police Department and the FBI are asking for the public's help in identifying and locating the man responsible for the bank robbery that happened on Saturday morning in Center City Philadelphia.
