Police Reports

Teens ambushed in drive-by

A 14-year-old girl was hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the leg. The suspects remain at large. Four males in a gold Ford Taurus opened fire on a group of teenagers last Thursday night, wounding...

Three-car crash kills mother and child

The victims were passengers of an SUV that contained five other family members when it flipped over near a local exit of I-95. The drivers of the two other cars also were injured. A three-car...

Driver shot in the back

A 23-year-old man took a bullet to the back Sunday morning while sitting inside his Chevy Blazer on the 500 block of Snyder Avenue, police said. Several males approached the vehicle on foot and fired...

Gunman rapes woman

Police have released a composite sketch of a suspect wanted for sexually assaulting a 38-year-old woman in her own apartment Monday night. The composite depicts a black male who is 6 feet tall, 180-190 pounds...

Body found in backseat

Police made the gruesome discovery in a car on Montrose Street. They have identified the victim but not the motive. A report on an abandoned car turned into a homicide investigation for police last week. Investigators...

Gunned down in Point Breeze

Authorities are looking for the gunman who shot and killed a 19-year-old man in Point Breeze on Monday night. James Manigault, of the 1300 block of South Opal Street, was walking on the 1700 block...

Man guilty in rape behind hospital

The defendant claimed he happened on the scene after the victim was attacked. He faces 50 years in prison. A jury on Friday convicted Tramaine Hicks, 26, of raping a woman behind St. Agnes Medical...

Bicyclist shot dead

A group of males in a car opened fire at 19th and Carpenter streets Monday morning, killing a 23-year-old man on a bicycle and wounding a bystander who was taking out the trash, said...

Ambushed by gunfire

Police are searching for a motive and two suspects in the shooting of a 21-year-old man. Two males approached a 21-year-old man on the 1500 block of South 24th Street early Tuesday and shot him...

Ex-officer fights for job

A former Philadelphia police officer acquitted in June of charges that he had sex with a 13-year-old South Philly girl filed a federal lawsuit last Wednesday to get his job back. Kraig Graham, 22, had...
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