Philadelphia, PA (WBAP/KLIF) – The suspect in Monday night’s mass shooting in Philadelphia’s #Kingsessing neighborhood has been identified as 40-year old Kimbrady Carricker. 5 people were killed, two others injured.
The suspect killed one man in a house before fatally shooting four others on the streets of a Philadelphia neighborhood, then surrendering to police officers after being cornered in an alley with an assault rifle, a pistol, extra magazines, a police scanner and a bulletproof vest, police said.A 2-year-old boy and a 13-year-old were also wounded in the Monday night violence that made the working-class area of Kingsessing the site of the nation’s worst violence around the July Fourth holiday.
Accoding to website Heavy, Carricker shared videos on Facebook of guns and expressed concern that President Joe Biden was going to take away gun rights.
“The Facebook page was taken down after Carriker was named as the suspected gunman, but Heavy viewed the posts before the page was removed. Multiple posts on the page dealt with concern that people’s guns will be taken away by government. Carriker shared videos of children with guns. He also shared a post about supporting President Donald Trump. Carriker also shared a photo of a raised hand that is used by the BLM or Black Lives Matter movement.”
Police called to the scene found gunshot victims and started to help them before hearing more shots. Some officers rushed victims to hospitals while others ran toward the gunfire and chased the firing suspect. Officers ultimately arrested the assailant in an alley, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said at a news conference. The shooter had no connection to the victims before the shooting, she said.
“On what was supposed to be a beautiful summer evening, this armed and armored individual wreaked havoc, firing with a rifle at their victims seemingly at random,” she said Tuesday afternoon.
Staff Inspector Ernest Ransom, the homicide unit commander, said witness interviews and video indicated that the suspect went to several locations in a ski mask and body armor, carrying an AR-15-style rifle.
(Associated Press)