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The suspect has been taken into police custody after an hourslong standoff with the police in Philadelphia.
Before he surrendered and came out, police surrounded the row house and cordoned off the nearby streets.
Onlookers gathered as police tried to get the suspect to communicate. Six officers were injured, but they have been released from the hospital and are in “good spirits,” said the Philadelphia mayor.
SWAT and police teams were deployed. The SWAT teams helped evacuate two police officers and four women who had been trapped inside the home.
Philadelphia Police Sgt. Eric Gripp just tweeted that the suspect is in custody and SWAT teams are clearing the house.
Police say they’ve spoken with the armed man who’s been barricaded inside a Philadelphia row house.
After hours of ignoring efforts by police to communicate, the man’s attorney and Commissioner Richard Ross got on a call with him to try to assure him police were not going to harm him.
“We don’t know if he’s injured. In my conversation with him, it doesn’t appear that he is,” Ross told reporters. “But I’m not sure.”
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney called for more gun control, saying the city’s police officers need help keeping weapons out of the hands of criminals.
“It’s just something that, we need to do something about it,” Kenney said at a second press conference Wednesday evening. “And if the state and federal government don’t want to stand up to the NRA and some other folks, then let us, let us police ourselves. But they preempt us on all kinds of gun control legislation.”
“Our officers deserve to be protected and don’t deserve to be shot at by a guy for hours with an unlimited supply of weapons and an unlimited supply of bullets,” Kenney said.
“It’s disgusting and we got to do something about it and we need to do something about it quickly,” he said.
All of the Philadelphia police officers who were shot during Wednesday’s confrontation have now been released from area hospitals, Sgt. Eric Gripp said on Twitter.
“One Officer is being admitted for injuries sustained in a vehicle crash related to the incident,” he wrote. “Situation remains active and ongoing.”
The suspect is still alive and inside the building, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross said.
Ross said the suspect does not appear to be injured, but he can’t say for sure.
The suspect had been firing shots all evening, but “he hasn’t done so in a while.”
“We’re optimistic that that means he’s starting to understand that, you know, there’s some benefit to him coming out and surrendering,” Ross said.
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross says that SWAT managed to free the two police officers and three others who were trapped inside the row house with the shooter.
“SWAT did that, they were so adept at doing that,” he told reporters. “They’ve got a skill set that they were able to utilize tonight and they were able to use stealth to do it. And to do so in large part without him being aware – or at least we don’t think he was aware.”
Philadelphia Police Sgt. Eric Gripp said on Twitter that the two officers who were barricaded inside the row house with the suspect have been safely evacuated by the SWAT team.
“Suspect is still armed and inside house,” he wrote. “Continue to avoid the area.”
Philadelphia police officers first came to the house where the standoff is taking place to serve a state narcotics warrant, and they came under fire, according to a law enforcement source.
Two police officers are still barricaded inside the building, the source said.
At least one suspect – police have said they aren’t sure whether there’s just one shooter inside the house – is also the subject of a separate federal law enforcement investigation, the source added.
Philadelphia Police Sgt. Eric Gripp said on Twitter around 9 p.m. ET that the situation remains active.
“The suspect remains barricaded as PPD Officers continue to attempt to communicate with him.”
Officers were in the kitchen of the house when the shooter fired and police shot back, Commissioner Richard Ross told reporters.
“Many of them had to escape through windows and doors,” he said. The shooter has continued to fire out of the windows, the commissioner said.
One officer’s head was grazed by a bullet, but all six officers who were shot have non-life-threatening injuries and “everybody is going to be okay,” he said.
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney told reporters that he’d spoken to the six officers who had been shot, and said they were all “in good spirits.”
“Our concern is for them and their families,” he said, adding he was “a little angry” that the shooter could be so heavily armed, with so much ammunition.
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross told reporters that their attempts to contact the shooter have so far been unsuccessful.
“We are trying to talk to this male, trying to let him know that he can end this peacefully now,” Ross said.
Ross said they called the shooter multiple times, that he picked up, but did not speak or answer their calls.
Ross said he could not confirm that there was only one shooter at this time and the scene is still very active.
SWAT officers escorted four women out of the building where a shooter has been holed up during a standoff with police, according to CNN affiliate KYW reporter Greg Argos, who is on the scene.
Argos reported that the women said they were on the second floor of the building. He described the women as “visibly upset, crying, as they were escorted down the street.”
Two officers remain trapped inside the house where the shootout first erupted this afternoon, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross tells the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Philadelphia officers are trying to communicate with the shooter, a police sergeant said.
One of the complications for the SWAT team at the scene of the shooting is the concern of the shooter’s location — and the safety of any officers inside.
At one point during the shooting, two police officers were barricaded on the second floor of the building, according to two law enforcement sources. It’s unclear if the officers remain barricaded.
According to one of the sources, a suspect appeared at one point to be on the first floor and was firing through walls.
Philadelphia officers are trying to communicate with the shooter, a police sergeant said.
They are “imploring him to surrender and avoid further injuries,” Philadelphia Police Sgt. Eric Gripp tweeted.
At least six officers were injured during the hours-long standoff.
The lockdown at Temple University’s Health Sciences Center has been lifted, the university tweeted.
Some context: Ray Betson, a spokesperson for Temple University, said the Health Sciences Center is about seven to eight blocks from the reported scene of the shooting. It’s also about two miles away from the main campus.
A shooter involved in a standoff with police is still armed, according to Philadelphia Police Sgt. Eric Gripp.
