Philadelphia police shot at and chased a suspect who attempted to run over an officer Thursday evening, according to officials.
Police said it all played out after officers stopped a jeep near E and Clearfield Streets in Kensington. Police said the woman driver then rammed the police car, tried to run over an officer and took off.
She later crashed near Ann and Richmond Streets in Port Richmond.[[392830401, C]]
The incident happened around 9:30.
A Jeep could be seen tipped on its side under I-95, surrounded by police vehicles as SkyForce10 hovered over the crash scene.
No officers were injured and a woman was taken into custody.
Police said the jeep was stolen.
Someone shot three bicyclists – including two teenagers – from behind as they rode along a North Philadelphia street overnight.
Gunfire rang out just before 1:30 a.m. Friday along N 5th Street near Erie Avenue, said Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small.
“(Officers) found a 44-year-old male down on the highway suffering from a gunshot wound to his back,” said Small.
Medics rushed him to Temple University Hospital where he was listed in stable condition, said Small.
While investigating the initial scene, officers were called to about three blocks away where they found a 17-year-old shot in the back and an 18-year-old shot in the leg. Both teens were also listed in stable condition, said police.
“The 17- and 18-year-old, after being shot, were able to ride their bikes to the 17-year-old’s house,” said Small.
The teens know each other, the 44-year-old was not with then teens, said Small. All three were headed southbound when they heard gunshots from behind.
Investigators didn’t immediately reveal who they believe the gunman targeted.
“We don’t know which of the three, if any of them, were the intended target,” said Small.
As the search for a missing woman entered its fourth day, a Pennsylvania state park was set to reopen Friday.
Officials with Tyler State Park told NBC10 the woman, later identified by family members as Lindsey Marie Piccone, was reported missing around 8 p.m. Tuesday. Piccone, 21, did not have her cellphone with her at the time and was last seen Sunday, according to investigators.
Family members say Piccone’s car was found at Tyler State Park yet she still wasn't located after searches were conducted Tuesday night, Wednesday and Thursday. [[392640601, C]]
The park, which is 1,711 acres and located in Newtown and Northampton townships in Bucks County, was set to reopen at 9 a.m. Friday after it had been closed to vehicular traffic Wednesday and Thursday.
Officials asked visitors to be aware of the ongoing search and said some areas may remain secured on Friday.
Searches -- air, water, terrain and K-9 teams have joined the search, according to Bensalem Police -- outside of the park continued as well.
Piccone, who stands around 5-feet, 3-inches tall and weighs about 120 pounds, was wearing a black tank top when she went missing Sunday, said Bensalem Police. [[392810801, C]]
If you have any information on Piccone’s whereabouts, please call Bucks County Emergency Services at 610-982-5411 or her family at 215-385-0387. You can also can Bensalem Police at 215-633-3719.
Delaware County paused Friday to remember the victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
The county held a memorial service at Rose Tree Park in Media.
County District Attorney Jack Whelen joined residents, law enforcement and others at the event that also honored emergency personal including Folcroft Police Officer Christopher Dorman, who planned to return to work this weekend after being shot in the line of duty.
A fight between an off-duty Philadelphia Police officer and his teenage son led to a shooting that left the son shot and the officer on desk duty, said police.
Police identified the officer involved in the Sept. 5 shooting inside the officer's home on the 2700 block of Taunton Street in Northeast Philly as Officer Dorion Young, a 24-year veteran officer assigned to the 15th District.
Young and his 19-year-old son began arguing with each other and the argument soon turned physical, according to investigators.
"Apparently they got into some sort of scuffle, argument or something," said Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross.
Young was armed with his personal gun during the fight, according to Philadelphia Police Lt. John Stanford.
"During this altercation his weapon was discharged at least twice, striking one of the individuals inside of the home in the torso area of the body," Stanford said.
The son survived being shot in his abdomen and back but remained in critical condition Friday, said police.
Young's younger son and the gunshot victim's girlfriend were also in the home at the time, said Ross.
Ross said the officer would remain off the street -- he was already recovering from an injury -- as police investigated what Ross called "a police-involved shooting." As of Friday morning no charges were filed.
"There are still a lot of questions that need to be answered," said Ross.
The Internal Affairs Unit can't interview Young until the district attorney's office can investigate. Northeast Detectives could interview witnesses, however.
Nicholas Mauro, the officer's neighbor, described him as a good person.
"He's a really good guy," Mauro said. "Nice to talk to. Nice personality. I really didn't think any of this would have happened."
For the second time, a Lancaster County mother faces charges in the death of her 2-month old child in her bed, this time accused of homicide after ignoring doctor's warnings about sharing her bed with her children.
The baby died in July at Jessica Harper's home along Robert Fulton Highway in Peach Bottom, said authorities.
"Jessica Harper, biological mother to the infant … stated that she placed (the infant) in her bed to sleep," said an affidavit of probable cause obtained by NBC affiliate WGAL. "She as well as her 3-year-old daughter slept in that bed with (the infant) in between both of them. When Harper awoke (the baby) was not breathing."
The death was later ruled a homicide caused by the baby suffocating while he slept, said the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office.
An investigation revealed that Harper ignored the advice of multiple medical professionals who warned the 28-year-old mother not to have the baby sleep in bed with her. Just six days before the boy died, a pediatrician warned Harper of the consequences of sharing a bed with her infant son but Harper responded that she was "going to do it anyway," according to the affidavit.
"Harper demonstrated an 'extreme indifference to the value of human life' by ignoring the repeated warnings of several doctors," the affidavit stated.
Charged with criminal homicide, Harper was jailed without bail after her Thursday arrest, said court records.
She has a long history of criminal issues in the state of Maryland. One of Harper’s other children – also a 2-month-old – died in Cecil County, Maryland in 2011 of suffocation, said investigators. She pleaded guilty to lesser charges in that case.
Lancaster County children and youth was working on the care of Harper's five living children, reported WGAL.
Google assisted on an arrest in Montgomery County for a suspect who allegedly uploaded an image police believe to be child pornography to his personal email account.
Russell Gellman, of Abington, allegedly uploaded a photo that he allegedly later told police he believed to "probably" be an underage girl having intercourse, according to the criminal complaint filed by an Abington detective working with the county's cyber crimes unit.
The cyber trail leading up to the charges filed this week against Gellman began in February when Google reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) that a possible image of child pornography was uploaded to an email account, TheGreatFunzo@gmail.com.
A secondary email associated with that gmail account was russell_gellman@hotmail.com, Google told the NCMEC, which in turn passed along the tip to Abington police in March.
Abington Detective Rick Beaghley, who is assigned to the county's cyber crime unit, said in the criminal complaint that "based on my training and experience, the image depicts a child under the age of eighteen years old engaged in a sexual act."
Beaghley checked on the IP address that Google provided as part of its initial tip. After determining through "a check of publicly available records" that the IP address was assigned to Comcast Cable Communications Inc., Beaghley said he then secured a subpoena directing Comcast to identify their subscriber who used that IP address at the time of the alleged upload to the gmail account.
It was traced to Gellman's residence on Penn Avenue in the Glenside section of Abington, the complaint said. Beaghley said state records showed a 2003 BMW registered to Gellman with the license plate "FUNZO."
On May 26, police searched Gellman's home and seized an iPad, which Gellman later allegedly confessed to using to access two images of children pornography.
It remains unclear how exactly Gellman came into possession of the image. Beaghley was not immediately available for comment.
A press release by the Montgomery County District Attorney's office reiterated what the complaint alleged: "The tip indicated that an image of child pornography depicting a prepubescent female child, approximately 10 years old, having sexual intercourse with a man, was uploaded to a computer email address."
Gellman was charged with distribution of child pornography, possession of child pornography and criminal use of a communication device, all felonies.
He was released on $50,000 bail and ordered to have no unsupervised contact with children and no internet usage. His preliminary hearing is scheduled for Oct. 27.
