Name: Police shoot man who refused to drop knife in Feltonville
Uploaded: 2022-02-15T17:31:07-05:00
Description: Police shot a man who allegedly stabbed his aunt several times. Officers arrived on South Beechwood Street and shot the man they said walked toward officers with the weapon after ignoring demands to drop it.

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Police shoot man who refused to drop knife in Feltonville

Police shot a man who allegedly stabbed his aunt several times. Officers arrived on South Beechwood Street and shot the man they said walked toward officers with the weapon after ignoring demands to drop it.

PHILADELPHIA - Police shot and killed a knife-wielding suspect who allegedly stabbed his aunt to death and continued towards officers Tuesday afternoon in South Philadelphia, according to investigators.

Philadelphia Police Sergeant Eric Gripp said officers responded to the 2000 block of South Beechwood Street and encountered the 36-year-old man still holding the knife he used in the stabbing.

Officers told him to put down the knife, but he refused and allegedly lunged towards officers, according to an update from the Philadelphia Police Department.

Police tased the suspect, but it did not stop him and an officer fired at least one shot that hit the man in the torso, Gripp explained.

The suspect and his aunt, 72, were taken to Penn Presbyterian Hospital where police said they both died.