Hassan Elliott, 21, is charged with murder in fatal shooting of Philly Sgt. James O’Connor IV
Elliott, who was arraigned Thursday, also faces seven counts of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, seven counts of assaulting a law enforcement officer, obstruction, reckless endangerment, and related charges.
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Hassan Elliott, 21, was charged with murder Thursday in last Friday’s killing of Philadelphia Police Sgt. James O’Connor IV in Frankford.
Elliott, who had been held without bail since the incident, allegedly shot through a closed door at SWAT officers seeking to arrest him, fatally striking O’Connor.
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He was arraigned at 1:06 a.m., according to court records. He also faces seven counts of attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, seven counts of assaulting a law enforcement officer, obstruction, reckless endangerment, and related charges, police said.
Before dawn Friday, O’Connor and his colleagues entered an apartment on the 1600 block of Bridge Street in search of Elliott, who was wanted for allegedly committing a murder nearby a year earlier.
As O’Connor climbed the stairs, authorities have said, Elliott began firing through a closed bedroom door. O’Connor was struck in an arm and shoulder, and was pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital at 6:09 a.m.
Police wait outside the emergency room entrance at Temple University Hospital in North Philadelphia after an officer was shot and killed while serving a warrant on Friday.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney (left) and Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw speak to reporters outside Temple's emergency room entrance.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer
Philadelphia Police salute as the body of SWAT Cpl. James O’Connor is brought to a hearse.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer
Philadelphia police highway patrol officers lead the procession after O'Connor's body was brought to a hearse.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer
O’Connor is the first officer killed in the line of duty in Philadelphia in five years.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer
Police wait outside the emergency room entrance at Temple University Hospital.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer
Philadelphia police officers line up outside Temple University Hospital's emergency room after O’Connor's body was brought to a hearse.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer
Kenney (left) and Outlaw walk to speak to reporters outside the emergency room entrance at Temple University Hospital in North Philadelphia.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer
Police investigate the shooting scene in the 1600 Block of Bridge Street in Frankford section of Philadelphia.Read moreAvi Steinhardt
District Attorney Larry Krasner waits outside the emergency room entrance at Temple University Hospital.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer
Police procession to accompany a fallen Philadelphia Police Officer to the Medical Examiners Office on 38th Street in Philadelphia.Read moreJESSICA GRIFFIN / Staff Photographer
Police salute a hearse carrying the body of O'Connor at the Medical Examiners Office in Philadelphia.Read moreJESSICA GRIFFIN / Staff Photographer
Police carry the body of a fallen Philadelphia Police Officer O'Connor into the hearse at the Medical Examiners Office on 38th Street in Philadelphia.Read moreJESSICA GRIFFIN / Staff Photographer
Plainclothes police officers leave the scene where O'Connor was fatally shot early Friday morning on the 1600-block of Bridge Street in the city's Frankford section.Read moreAvi Steinhardt
Police investigate the scene where O'Connor was fatally shot early Friday morning.Read moreAvi Steinhardt
Police investigate the shooting scene.Read moreAvi Steinhardt
Police investigate the scene where O'Connor was shot.Read moreAvi Steinhardt
Outlaw talks to reporters outside the emergency room entrance at Temple University Hospital.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer
A woman cries after the body of O’Connor was brought to a hearse at the emergency room entrance at Temple University Hospital.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer
Fraternal Order of Police Lodge #5 President John McNesby speaks at FOP headquarters in Northeast Philadelphia, about the death of O’Connor.Read moreELIZABETH ROBERTSON / Staff Photographer
A woman cries after O’Connor's body was taken away.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer
Philadelphia police officers line up at the emergency room entrance at Temple University Hospital in North Philadelphia.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer
Outlaw (center) walks with Deputy Commissioner Christine Coulter (left) and Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 President John McNesby (right) to talk to reporters outside the emergency room entrance at Temple University Hospital.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer
Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner (front) talks with homicide unit chief Anthony Voci (right) outside Temple University Hospital.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer
Law enforcement officers hug outside the emergency room entrance at Temple University Hospital in North Philadelphia.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer
Philadelphia Police SWAT officers wheel out the body of Cpl. James O’Connor to a hearse at the emergency room entrance at Temple University Hospital in North Philadelphia.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer
Philadelphia firefighters from Ladder 31 hang funeral bunting outside John F. Givnish Funeral Home in Northeast Philadelphia.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer
Philadelphia police Deputy Commissioner Christine Coulter (left) hugs Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel outside the emergency room entrance at Temple University Hospital in North Philadelphia.Read moreTIM TAI / Staff Photographer
Police carry the casket with the body of O’Connor into Givnish Funeral Home.Read moreELIZABETH ROBERTSON / Staff Photographer
Police who escorted his body wait in line to pay their respects to O'Connor.Read moreELIZABETH ROBERTSON / Staff Photographer
Three other people — Khalif Sears, 18; Bilal Mitchell, 19; and Sherman Easterling, 24 — were in the room with Elliott when he pulled the trigger, authorities have said. None has yet been charged in O’Connor’s death, but all remain in custody for other crimes as police continued to investigate.
Elliott — who did not have an attorney listed in court documents — also has been charged with murder in the March 2019 killing.
O’Connor, 46, was a 23-year veteran and a married father of two. His father was a city police officer, as are his son and daughter-in-law; his daughter serves in the military police. He was posthumously promoted from corporal.
