An 18-year-old man is below arrest for fatally shooting a Temple University police officer on Saturday, the U.S. Marshalls Service in Pennsylvania introduced Sunday.
Miles Pfeffer, 18, was arrested Sunday morning for homicide in the shooting dying, stated the USMS Jap Pennsylvania Fugitive Job Drive in Bucks County.
He was additionally charged with homicide of a legislation enforcement officer, theft, carjacking and weapons crimes in the dying of officer Christopher Fitzgerald, the Philadelphia district lawyer’s workplace stated Sunday.
Fitzgerald, 31, had been attempting to cease a carjacking on Saturday night time when he was shot in the top, prosecutors stated.
“Pfeffer can also be alleged to have tried to rob Officer Fitzgerald of his gun and to have gone by means of his pockets, whereas the officer was laying on the bottom and fatally wounded,” District Lawyer Larry Krasner stated in a Sunday assertion.
“Pfeffer is additional alleged to have dedicated a carjacking a short while after, near the situation of the officer’s homicide.”
His father was Joel Fitzgerald, a 17-year Philadelphia Police Division veteran and the previous chief of police in Allentown, Pa.
“We’re heartbroken tonight,” Temple President Jason Wingard stated as he choked again tears, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
“It simply shakes all people to the core,” stated Temple official Ken Kaiser.
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