Man Charged With Attempted Murder After Shooting At Philadelphia Police Officer

Philadelphia Police are investigating an assault inside Penn Presbyterian Medical Center involving an officer on duty. The spokesperson did not comment on the other charges but said that the district attorney’s office was “reviewing the case for general information” after Archer’s arrest Thursday night.

Archer traveled to the Middle East twice in recent years, to Egypt and once to Saudia Arabia.

Policeman Jesse Hartnett, 33, was shot three times in his left arm as he sat in his patrol auto. He was in critical but stable condition, police said today.

Archer, who is charged with attempted murder, told detectives he shot Harnett for Islam and because he was inspired by ISIS, but there have been no reports of specific links between Archer and ISIS.

(AP Photo/Matt Rourke). Investigators work the scene at one of the residences, center, where suspect Edward Archer has lived Friday, Jan. 8, 2016, in Yeadon, Pa. Archer is accused of ambushing a police officer. “He is literally inside that vehicle”, Ross said of an image of the shooting.

Davis said the commanding officer of the precinct began contacting local community leaders about the alleged rape on Friday. Fortunately, the gunman had not been spending much time on the firing range. He missed 10 times, but hit Officer Hartner three times in the arm.

Mayor Jim Kenney played down the Islam connection, calling Archer “a criminal with a stolen gun who tried to kill one of our officers”.

“Shots fired! … I’m bleeding heavily!”. Police say the officer gave the man $5 and then entered the building.

“There was blood everywhere on the street”, the officer said.

Natalie King, 68, a neighbor and retired public worker said that while Archer was seen going to a mosque each Friday, she did not consider him radicalized.

The officer was standing near the exit doors with his back turned when he felt the man attempting to grab his gun out of the holster, according to police.

The gunman was apprehended by other officers, Ross said. Agents have taken materials from Archer’s house and begun an investigation into his Internet communications. “I pledge my allegiance to the Islamic State and that’s why I did what I did”.

The city’s police commissioner said yesterday that Mr Archer told authorities that he ambushed the patrol auto “in the name of Islam”. “He doesn’t appear to be a stupid individual, just an extremely violent one”.

A Democrat and a former city councilor, Kenney was elected as Philadelphia’s chief executive in November 2015.

“He wasn’t what you would call radicalised”, she said.

“He’s been acting kind of unusual lately”. He’s been talking to himself… laughing and mumbling. “He’s been hearing voices in his head”.

“If he claims he is devout Muslim, that’s nonsense, his action is anything but devout Muslim”.

“I don’t know how he got the gun”, she said.