Lashyd Merritt.Photo:Facebook
The victims are Daujan Brown, 15, Lashyd Merritt, 20, Dymir Stanton, 29, Joseph Wamah, Jr., 31, and Ralph Moralis, 59, according to a press release from the Philadelphia Police Department.
Merritt was going out for a snack during a break from work when he was fatally shot, according to his mother, Marie Merritt, who spoke with6abcin the aftermath of the shooting.
“All the stuff that goes on in Philadelphia,” she said. “He wasn’t a part of that. The violence, he wasn’t part of that. So young and so bright."
“He was just trying to get his friend help not knowing that bullets don’t have no name,” she said.
Per the police release, officers located multiple shooting victims “along an extensive scene.”
Outlaw told reporters that officers apprehended the suspect in an alley as shots were still being fired. The commissioner also said the suspected shooter was carrying a semi-automatic rifle, a handgun, a police scanner and multiple magazines of ammunition.
Kimbrady Carriker.Philadelphia Police Department
Philadelphia Police Department
It’s unclear if the suspected shooter has entered a plea or retained an attorney to comment on their behalf.
Another person was also taken into custody, but police don’t know the nature of their alleged connection to the suspected shooter.
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Police believe that all of those who were shot were either on the street or in vehicles and that they are currently searching for a motive as there is no clear connection between the suspect and the victims, NBC News reports.
“All we know is that this person decided to leave their home and target individuals,” Outlaw said at the conference.
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney hassaidthat he is “outraged that mass shootings like this continue to happen across the U.S.”
source: people.com
