Philadelphia gunman kills 1, wounds 5 in anti-cop rampage

(Image credit: Matt Rourke/Associated Press)

published 17 September 2016

A rampaging gunman in Philadelphia late Friday night shot six people, including two police officers, before he was fatally shot by police. One of the injured women died, and both officers were hospitalized in stable condition.

The incident began when the shooter silently approached police Sgt. Sylvia Young as she sat in her patrol car and opened fire. Young, who was protected by a bulletproof vest, radioed for help as the suspect fled. He shot five other people, among them one other officer, while attempting to escape.

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.

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