The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said the officer “tried to intervene in a carjacking.”
after reportedly trying to intervene in a carjacking, university police union officials said.
Temple University earlier said in a statement that the officer was shot while trying to apprehend a robbery suspect and was later pronounced dead at the university hospital. Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said the officer “tried to intervene in a carjacking,” The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Ken Kaiser, the university’s senior vice president and chief operating officer, was quoted by the Philadelphia Inquirer as saying it was the first shooting death of a campus officer during his more than 30 years at Temple. “It just shakes everybody to the core,” he said. They sent prayers to his family, Temple police and the university community, he added, saying, “May his memory be a blessing.”
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