Police shot and killed a man after a confrontation in West Philly this morning, authorities say
A 75-year-old man was killed by police in West Philadelphia on Tuesday morning, authorities said.
Police shot and killed a 75-year-old man in West Philadelphia this morning after responding to a report of a person with a weapon and being confronted by a man with a gun, authorities said.
Officers responded to the 5400 block of Webster Street just after 7 a.m., said Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore. There, he said, they found a man on his porch with a gun.
As one of the officers approached him, Vanore said, “there was very quickly a confrontation.”
Two shots were fired, he said, one by the man and one by the officer. The man was struck by a bullet and immediately transported to Penn Presbyterian Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:33 a.m., Vanore said.
The officer was not injured.
“We believe the male fired his weapon — we have more analysis to do — and then the female officer who was there fired her weapon,” Vanore said.
Police continue to investigate and are scouring the block for evidence, gathering witness accounts, and seeking video evidence.
Investigators will also review body-worn camera video, he said.
A crime scene unit left the scene shortly after 10 a.m., but left the block taped off with some passersby still onlooking. At the intersection of 54th and Webster Streets, neighbor Tony McKinley spoke with two uniformed officers, “Nothing like this has ever happened here,” McKinley said.
One non-fatal shooting occurred this year in the immediate area of Tuesday’s police shooting. According to the most recent Citizens Police Oversight Commission reports, at least two other Philadelphia police officers shot people while on duty in 2026, in the Feltonville and Nicetown sections of Philadelphia in January.