\nPhiladelphia police are offering a $20,000 reward to anyone who provides information that assists in locating a man who’s allegedly linked to two separate fatal shootings involving tow truck drivers.\u00a0Najee Williams, 27, faces multiple charges including murder, conspiracy and reckless endangerment of another person.<\/p>\n
Williams was involved in a Dec. 22 shooting at 4200 Torresdale Ave. in\u00a0East Frankford in which\u00a0officers found a man inside a Ford F-450 towing vehicle with gunshot wounds to his neck and thigh,\u00a0police said<\/a>.\u00a0David Garcia-Morales, 20, was transported to Temple University Hospital and died four days later.<\/p>\n MORE:\u00a0Ex-Eagle Kevin Johnson’s death may be linked to 3 other homicides<\/a><\/p>\n Williams is also connected to a Jan. 11 shooting\u00a0along the 2100 block of Knorr Street\u00a0in the Oxford Circle neighborhood in Northeast Philadelphia, police said.\u00a0Aaron Whitfield, 25, was found dead inside a tow truck with multiple gunshot wounds to the head and body. A 21-year-old woman who was also shot in the incident was transported to Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital and is in stable condition.<\/p>\n Williams is the owner of N.K.W Towing & Recovery LLC and was identified by police using surveillance footage, according to NBC10<\/a>. Both men who were fatally shot worked for the Jenkintown-based 448 Towing and Recovery company, the Inquirer<\/a>\u00a0reported.\n<\/p>\n Investigators are also\u00a0looking into whether Williams is also connected to another fatal shooting of a tow truck driver in November,\u00a0NBC10\u00a0said.<\/p>\n \n\u201cWe believe there\u2019s some kind of connection there,\u201d Ernest Ransom, commanding officer of the Philadelphia Police Homicide Unit, told NBC10. \u201cWe\u2019re not ready to go on the record to say this is part of that homicide, but we are working towards that direction.\u201d\n<\/p>\n \nPolice said Williams should be considered to be armed and dangerous and the public should not approach him.\u00a0Anyone with information on Williams is urged to call the police department\u2019s tip line at 215-686-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia police are offering a $20,000 reward to anyone who provides information that assists in locating a man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31,11370,33316,19151,69,71,70,22373,27436],"class_list":{"0":"post-105491","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-frankford","10":"tag-murder-charges","11":"tag-oxford-circle","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","14":"tag-philadelphia-news","15":"tag-towing","16":"tag-wanted"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}