A Temple University police officer was shot and killed Saturday night near 17th Street and Montgomery Avenue near the campus border while pursuing the suspect in a robbery at a nearby convenience store
“It just shakes everybody to the core,” said Ken Kaiser, the school’s senior vice president and chief operating officer. He said that in his 32 years at the school, this was the first incident of a fatal shooting of a campus police officer.In a statement, the university said the suspected robbery occurred at a convenience store at 15th Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue. The shooting first was reported around 7:15 p.m.
Safety concerns have been mounting in Temple’s neighborhood since November 2021 when Temple student Samuel Collington was fatally shot less than two blocks from a campus building. Temple said it has taken steps to address safety, including adding police officers. But the Temple University Police Association has been critical of the university’s safety response, saying it does not have enough officers.
Prior to that, the last fatal on-duty shooting was in March 2015, when Officer Robert Wilson III was gunned down while trying to thwart an armed robbery at a GameStop in North Philadelphia.
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