Suspect arraigned, held without bail in shooting of Philadelphia police officer

Ross said Archer told police he believed the police department defends laws that are contrary to Islam.

A law enforcement source told Fox News that city police and the FBI were investigating the tip, which came from a woman who stopped an officer on the street Saturday night.

Archer’s mother described him as a devout Muslim.

Despite being shot three times, Hartnett left his patrol vehicle and pursued Archer, shooting him in the buttocks, police said.

Meanwhile, a fundraising page has been set up to raise money to help pay the expenses of the wounded officer, who was shot three times in the arm and will require multiple surgeries.

Stills captured from video surveillance and released to the press show the suspect – named by police as Edward Archer, 30, a local man – opening fire as he walked towards the patrol auto, extending his arm into the vehicle and then continuing to fire as he flees on foot.

Police Commissioner Richard Ross said Hartnett once stopped to pick up food for a suspect’s hungry son after an arrest.

“The citizen alleged the defendant had an affiliation to a group with radical beliefs”, police said in a statement, speaking of Archer and the anonymous female tipster, Reuters reported.

The FBI has launched an investigation into why the suspect visited Saudi Arabia and Egypt in 2011 and 2012, respectively.

Archer was charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and assault of a law enforcement officer Saturday.

Archer is awaiting sentencing in a 2014 case in Delaware County, where he was charged with forging documents, careless driving, driving with a suspended license, and other offenses.

The 9 mm pistol recovered at the scene of the shooting had been stolen from a fellow police officer’s home in October 2013, and investigators were trying to find out how Archer obtained the weapon and whether it passed through other people’s hands since the theft. “I’m shot! I’m bleeding heavily!” The baby’s father, Marco Mejia, said that Olaia Marie Mejia passed away on Friday morning at St. Christopher’s Hospital in Philadelphia. The police officer was not injured in the struggle but the suspect sustained a minor facial injury.

“[McCaul] says that based on information he has got, the order to try and execute that police officer in Philadelphia came straight from Islamic State leaders overseas, who are plotting terror attacks around the world”.

Hartnett, 33, had served eight years in the Coast Guard and joined the police five years ago.

But according to a website that keeps track of police officer deaths, Officer Down Memorial Page, line of duty deaths have actually declined in the last decade.

“I can’t say enough for his bravery and how he conducted himself”, Ross said of the cop. “He’s an excellent person”, Robert Hartnett said. “We don’t call each other by the names we had before we converted to Islam”, Rashid said.