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Suspected gunman is found critically wounded after shootout with SWAT cops in Holmesburg

Police said the gunman fired 40 to 50 shots at police.

Crime Scene Unit officers mark shell casings near a SWAT armored car after a suspected gunman who held police at bay in Holmesburg for two hours was found critically wounded following a shootout with police.
Crime Scene Unit officers mark shell casings near a SWAT armored car after a suspected gunman who held police at bay in Holmesburg for two hours was found critically wounded following a shootout with police.Read moreELIZABETH ROBERTSON / Staff Photographer

Philadelphia police traded gunfire with a man before a two-hour standoff in Holmesburg ended about 1 a.m. Monday with SWAT officers finding him critically wounded inside an apartment.

Staff Inspector Sekou Kinebrew said investigators were trying to determine if the man was struck by police gunfire or had been wounded before the standoff began.

Officers were called to the apartment on the 4400block of Kendrick Street about 10:55 p.m. Sunday for a report of gunfire and a man shot, Kinebrew said.

When the man did not respond to officers’ requests to come out, police declared a barricade situation and called in a SWAT team.

The man fired 40 to 50 shots at police, striking a patrol car multiple times, and threw a shotgun out the window, Kinebrew said.

At least three SWAT officers fired back, Kinebrew said. SWAT officers who entered the apartment found the man shot in each arm and in the chest.

The man was taken to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital in critical condition, police said.

SWAT Sgt. James O’Connor IV was fatally shot March 13 while trying to arrest a murder suspect on a warrant. That man has been charged with the officer’s murder.