Philadelphia Shooter Identified as Maurice Hill; Had Criminal Record
The Associated Press, August 15, 2019
An hourslong standoff where a gunman shot at police, wounding six of them, as he was barricaded inside a Philadelphia home somehow ended with no fatalities.
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross, who spent hours Wednesday negotiating with the gunman through the phone, said the situation that unfolded “could have been far worse.”
Maurice Hill
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The standoff started around 4:30 p.m. as officers went to a home in a north Philadelphia neighborhood of brick and stone rowhomes to serve a narcotics warrant in an operation “that went awry almost immediately,” Ross said.
Many officers “had to escape through windows and doors to get (away) from a barrage of bullets,” Ross said.
The six officers who were struck by gunfire have been released from hospitals, Philadelphia police Sgt. Eric Gripp.
Two other officers were trapped inside the house for about five hours after the shooting broke out but were freed by a SWAT team well after darkness fell on the residential neighborhood.
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Three people who officers had taken into custody in the house before the shooting started were also safely evacuated, police said.
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Temple University locked down part of its campus, and several children and staff were trapped for some time in a nearby day care.
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“I’m a little angry about someone having all that weaponry and all that firepower, but we’ll get to that another day,” Kenney said.
