The Philadelphia Police Department is investigating an officer-involved shooting that critically injured a woman in North Philadelphia.<\/p>\n
The incident occurred just before 4:15 a.m. Sunday.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to reports of a person with a gun in the 900 block of Erie Avenue.<\/p>\n
Upon arrival, officers found a 35-year-old woman holding a firearm to her head.<\/p>\n
Police say the woman ignored commands to drop the weapon.<\/p>\n
One officer deployed his taser, which struck the woman, but had no effect.<\/p>\n
The woman then fled across Erie Avenue, and pointed the firearm in the direction of police.<\/p>\n
Two officers then discharged their weapons, striking the woman multiple times.<\/p>\n
Officers transported the woman to Temple University Hospital, where she remains in critical condition.<\/p>\n
A handgun, with a removed serial number, was recovered at the scene.<\/p>\n
The woman is currently being charged with Aggravated Assault on Police and Violations of the Uniform Firearms Act.<\/p>\n
No officers or other civilians were injured.<\/p>\n
The investigation is under review by the PPD’s Officer Involved Shooting Investigation Unit, PPD’s Internal Affairs Bureau, and by the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office.<\/p>\n
Per departmental policy, the officers who discharged their weapons have been placed on administrative duty pending the outcome of the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Philadelphia Police Department is investigating an officer-involved shooting that critically injured a woman in North Philadelphia. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48379,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5993,28096,221,69,71,70,595],"class_list":["post-48378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-critical-condition","tag-internal-affairs-bureau","tag-north-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48378","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=48378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48378\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}