Memo Re BB Guns and PPD Shootings

8/10/2019 Memo Re BB Guns and PPD Shootings

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To: Public Safety CommitteeFrom: Kelvyn Anderson, Executive Director, Police Advisory CommissionRe: Police shootings involving BB Guns

Attached are PPD summaries of 7 officer-involved shootings between 2007 & 2013 where BBgunswere used by the assailants. I identified these yesterday aftercreating a searchable file of allshooting summaries posted on the PPD website.

Police

Shooting

NumberDate Location

Offender Wounded or

KilledOffender

ArrestedOfficer Wounded or

Killed

District

Attorney's

Action

Use of Force

Review Board

Determination

13 632013-10-

252600 block of N. 28th

StreetNo Yes No Declined Not Scheduled

10-65 B and Ontario St

10-74 3300 Brighton St

09-20 4200 Grissom

09-39 50th Walton

07-27

07-50300 block of Fitzwater

St

Officers discharged their weapons in all 7 incidents Officers missed the offender in 5 of the incidents.

Officers discharged and struck the offender in 2 of the incidents, resulting in injuries PS# 07-27 involved juveniles. The officer discharged her weapon, but missed the offender.

Districts where these incidents occurred include 3rd (1); 15th (2); 18th (1); 22nd (1); and

25th (1)

Kelvyn AndersonExecutive Director

Police Advisory Commission

990 Spring Garden St, Phila PA 19123

215-685-0872
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PS# 07-27

4/21/07

On 4/21/07, at approximately 12:57 A.M., a uniformed officer stopped several juveniles in aplayground for investigation. The officer exited her vehicle and detained one of the males.While investigating this male, a second male retrieved a hooded sweatshirt from the ground and

a handgun fell from the clothing. The officer drew her weapon and ordered the offender to stop.The offender picked up the handgun and the officer discharged her weapon missing the offender.

The offender dropped the weapon and was arrested without further incident.

The offenders weapon was determined to be a BB gun and was recovered at the scene.


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PS# 07-50

8/2/07

On 8/2/07, at approximately 1:38 A.M., uniformed officers were waved down by a witness, whostated that two males had robbed the complainant, point of gun, minutes earlier. The officerssurveyed the area with the two civilians. The complainant and witness identified two males who

were walking east in the 300 block of Fitzwater Street, as the males who had robbed thecomplainant. The officers ordered the offenders to stop. The offenders ran north on 3

rdStreet

and one offender threw a weapon to the ground in front of a residence in the 700 block of S. 3rd

Street. The offenders ran west on Monroe Street with an officer pursuing on foot and another

officer in the patrol car. The offender who had discarded the weapon stopped in the 700 block ofS. 4

thStreet with his hands inside his waistband. One officer ordered him to show his hands, but

he refused. The officer then discharged, missing the offender. The offender ran east on MonroeStreet where he was apprehended by the second officer. The other offender was apprehended at

5

th

and Bainbridge Streets. The weapon discarded by the first offender was recovered and foundto be a BB gun.


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PS# 09-20

3/4/09

On 3/4/09, at approximately 11:49 P.M., an officer, on-duty and in uniform, was stopped by awitness who relayed that an offender with a handgun had attempted to rob her at Frankford and

Torresdale Avenues. The witness told the officer she had grabbed the butt end of the gun andtried to wrestle it away from the offender. The offender then ran on Frankford Avenue toward

Womrath Street. The witness observed the offender get into the front passenger seat of a whiteAcura.

The witness and the officer observed the white Acura in the 4200 block of Grissom Street. Theoffender exited the passenger side door and fled south on Grissom Street, where he dropped areplica Dessert Eagle gun on the sidewalk in the 1500 block of Adams Avenue. The offender

turned the corner and ran westbound on Adams Avenue.

The officer pursued the offender on foot, and when the officer turned the corner at Adams andGrissom, the second offender was positioned in front of a maroon Lincoln pointing a handgun in

his direction. The officer discharged his firearm, missing the offender. The offender threw hisfirearm underneath the Lincoln and fled west on Adams Avenue. He was apprehended in the rear

of a yard on the 1500 block of Womrath Street. The offenders firearm, a BB gun, wasrecovered.


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PS# 09-39

5/26/09

On 5/26/09, at approximately 10:28 P.M., plainclothes officers patrolling the area of 50th

and

Walton Streets due to several recent armed robberies, observed the offender, armed with ahandgun, and three other males robbing an individual. The officers identified themselves and the

armed offender fled on foot. One of the plainclothes officers chased the offender to the 5000block of Catharine Street, and the officer discharged his firearm, missing the offender when the

offender refused commands to drop the gun and show his hands. The offender was apprehendedand his handgun, a BB gun resembling a semi-automatic pistol, was recovered at the scene.


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PS #10-65

9/14/10

On 9/14/10, at 8:02 P.M., uniformed officers responded to a Police Radio assignment, Person

with a gun at B and Ontario Streets. The officers observed the offender holding a blackhandgun and ordered the male to drop the weapon. The offender pointed his weapon at the

officers and both officers discharged their weapons, striking the offender. The offender wastransported to Temple Hospital. A BB gun resembling a semi-automatic pistol was recovered at

the scene.


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PS #10-74

10/19/10

On 10/19/10, at 11:01 P.M., an off-duty officer in plainclothes was inside McNallys Tavern at 3300 BrightonStreet. Three males armed with handguns entered the bar. One of the offenders pointed a handgun at the officeand demanded money. The officer threw his money to the floor and as the offender reached for the money, the

officer discharged his weapon, striking the offender. All three offenders fled the bar and the officer pursued theoffenders on foot. The offenders ran to a vehicle and one of the offenders turned toward the officer with a gun in

his hand. The officer discharged his weapon again. All three offenders fled the scene. One of the offenders waslater dropped off at Albert Einstein Medical Center for treatment of a gunshot wound. A BB gun resembling a

handgun was recovered from inside McNallys Tavern.


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PS# 13-63

10/25/13

On Friday, 10/25/13, at approximately 8:53 PM, uniformed officers, in a markedpolice vehicle, responded to a Police Radio assignment of a Person with a gun in

the 2700 block of Oakdale Street. Upon their arrival, the officers observed the

offender sitting on the front steps of a house. Seeing the officers, the offender fled

west on Oakdale Street, while clutching his waist area as he ran. The officers

exited their police vehicle, drew their weapons, and pursued the offender to the

2600 block of N. 28th

Street, where the offender pulled a handgun from his

waistband and pointed it at one of the officers. In response, the officer discharged

his weapon, missing the offender. The offender dropped his weapon and was

subsequently apprehended after a brief struggle in the 2800 block of Lehigh

Avenue.

The offenders weapon was recovered and determined to be BB gun.

There were no reported injuries as a result of the firearm discharge.

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