{"id":173072,"date":"2026-04-22T18:29:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173072\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T18:29:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T18:29:06","slug":"police-id-suspect-2-years-after-deadly-july-4th-mass-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/173072\/","title":{"rendered":"Police ID suspect 2 years after deadly July 4th mass shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Police have identified a suspect in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/cherelle-parker-kenyatta-johnson-address-kingsessing-july-fourth-mass-shooting\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">mass shooting<\/a> that killed a 19-year-old nearly two years ago in Southwest Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>Around 11:30 p.m. on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/southwest-philadelphia-deadly-mass-shooting-july-4th\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">July 4, 2024<\/a>, 19-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/kingsessing-fourth-of-july-shooting-maurice-quain-killed-8-injured-car-processing\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Maurice Quain<\/a> was shot in the head and killed while hosting a social media pop-up party on Salford Street, near 60th Street and Kingsessing Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>Eight others \u2014 between the ages of 14 and 24 \u2014 suffered bullet wounds to their limbs but survived. The gunfire came from several people inside a car.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been an intense investigation into this case,\u201d said Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore. \u201cWe recovered some evidence in this case, which was able to be developed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the suspects is 19-year-old Naseem Sills, who police said was driving the car and may have been a shooter himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis individual and at least two to three others are in the car, [and] they come to that location. At some point, an argument seems to ensue, and there\u2019s multiple rounds fired,\u201d said Vanore. \u201cWe believe [Sills] was with these defendants, and he was definitely inside that vehicle and drove that vehicle at some point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sills, who has a criminal record, is on the run. A warrant has been issued for his arrest on murder charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf anyone knows his whereabouts or anything about this case, we are urging them to give us a call,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>There is a $20,000 reward for any information leading to his arrest and conviction. Submit a tip <a href=\"https:\/\/phillypolice.com\/forms\/submit-a-tip\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">anonymously online<\/a>, or text or call 215-686-8477.<\/p>\n<p>Police are still working to identify at least two other suspects. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 Police have identified a suspect in a mass shooting that killed a 19-year-old nearly&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":173073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31,77227,75523,11374,69,71,70,220,2653],"class_list":{"0":"post-173072","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-fourth-of-july","10":"tag-july-fourth","11":"tag-mass-shooting","12":"tag-philadelphia","13":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","14":"tag-philadelphia-news","15":"tag-shooting","16":"tag-southwest-philadelphia"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173072","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=173072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}