Second suspect taken into custody for killing Imani Ringgold in West Philadelphia ambush, police say
Zaire Manning was arrested in Germantown by U.S. Marshals on Tuesday.
A 21-year-old man was apprehended by police on Tuesday after spending weeks on the run, wanted in the killing of a woman in West Philadelphia last month.
Zaire Manning was arrested in Germantown by U.S. marshals after officers learned he had cut his hair and had been staying at an apartment in the neighborhood, police said.
Manning is expected to be charged with murder and related crimes after investigators said he was among those who shot and killed Imani Ringgold near 60th and Market Streets on April 7.
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Ringgold, 20, was walking down the street, holding a box of pizza and talking to her grandmother on the phone, police said, when three gunmen jumped out of a car and started shooting.
Investigators believe that the shooters were aiming toward a group of men she was walking past, police said, and that she stepped into the crossfire.
She was struck multiple times and died at a nearby hospital.
The shooting was likely retaliation for a quintuple shooting that left two men dead the week before, police said — part of an escalating gang feud in the area that Ringgold had nothing to do with.
Manning is the second person to be taken into custody. Last week, investigators arrested Hamza Ruley, 24, of Lansdowne, and charged him with murder and related crimes.
Police are still looking for Mustafa King, 26, in the slaying.
Detectives are still working to identify a fourth person involved.
