Police Reports

Med student dies after attack

A 25-year-old woman was taken off life support 24 hours after a fellow medical student allegedly beat her with a bat, police said. Lea Sullivan's parents pulled her off life support around 1 p.m....

Shots fired at teen’s vigil

28043647 Police responded to a call of shots fired and a man down in Point Breeze at 12:28 a.m. Sunday...

Wanted in young man’s murder

Police are searching for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a 23-year-old male last month. The Homicide Fugitive Division is searching for the man believed to have shot and killed a 23-year-old man on...

Killed in University City

Police arrested two men and charged them with the murder of a local following a brief car chase through University City early Sunday. Nathaniel Crawford, 26, from the 2200 block of Fitzwater...

Suspect shoots self

The Internal Affairs Bureau and Homicide Division are investigating a bizarre incident where a handcuffed man somehow managed to retrieve his gun and shoot himself in the head while in the back of a...

Third district community crime bulletin – September 16 to 22

From Sept. 16 to 22, there were six robberies throughout the 3rd Police District in South Philadelphia with one arrest, bringing 2019’s reported robbery totals to 179 with 51 arrests. During this same time, there...

Drug bust nets 
pills, guns

27137057 Narcotics officers seized $1.5 million in Ecstasy and marijuana, as well as a cache of firearms, in a Cambodian-run drug ring with South Philly and Montreal ties, police said. Jan. 26, four men...

Man nabbed in South Street slaying

Two Third District police officers arrested a 21-year-old man after he allegedly shot another man to death at 12th and South streets. Andrew Black, 19, of the 1100 block of Bainbridge Street, was...

Gunfire at strip club

A customer inside a gentlemen's club shot a dancer then turned the gun on himself Friday night, police said. The man died the next morning. "It seems like they had a prior relationship...

Man found dead in car

The victim had been shot once in the head. Police have no suspects or motive. A 27-year-old was shot in the head as he sat inside his car Saturday evening on the 2500 block of...
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