2 men slain in NE, W. Phila.
Two men were found slain over the weekend and authorities reported two police weapon-discharge incidents, leaving one suspect with a graze wound, police said.
Two men were found slain over the weekend and authorities reported two police weapon-discharge incidents, leaving one suspect with a graze wound, police said.
Police received a call about 4 a.m. Saturday of a man lying in the street on Bleigh Avenue near Glendale, in the Northeast section of the city. The man, Jeffrey Jackson, 43, of Yeadon, had blunt force trauma to the head and was pronounced dead at the scene, said Homicide Sgt. Frank Hayes.
About 2 p.m. Saturday, police were called to Reno Street near 40th because of reports of a body lying in a rear driveway. A man was found with gunshot wounds and pronounced dead on the scene, police said. Investigators believe that the victim had been killed days earlier. The identity of the man, 30, of West Philadelphia, is being withheld pending family notification, police said.
In the first weapon discharge incident, a man approached a police strike-force unit in North Philadelphia about 11 p.m. and told them he had been robbed, said police spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore. The victim described his assailant and said that the man had walked toward 30th and Oakdale streets. Two officers later saw the suspect, identified as Sharif Brown, 22, of Dauphin Street near 30th, firing his weapon at another victim, Vanore said. That shot missed the victim.
Brown entered a nearby alleyway and when the officers approached him, he pointed his gun at police, Vanore said. One officer fired his weapon but missed the suspect, Vanore said. Brown was taken into custody soon after.
In the other case of police discharge, an officer accidentally discharged his weapon yesterday as he was taking a suspect into custody, Vanore said.
The officer saw Tayron Davis, 28, firing a gun at another man, exited his vehicle and drew his weapon, Vanore said. He ordered Davis to drop his gun, which the suspect did. The officer's gun accidentally discharged and the bullet ricocheted, grazing the suspect in the chest, Vanore said. Davis was taken to Temple University Hospital and treated.