Gunman who shot 3 Philly officers and another person in Northeast Philly ID’d

In about 20 minutes, what began with an argument-turned-shooting inside a Northeast Philadelphia home on Wednesday night chaotically unraveled into a full-blown shootout in the streets,Just after 7 p.m. on Wednesday, police said that Michael Hwang, 42, fired a gun inside a home on the 7500 block of Whitaker Avenue in Rhawnhurst, leading to a verbal dispute with an unidentified man whom Hwang then shot in the face.

Police said Hwang was found wearing a ballistic vest and armed with a 40-caliber Glock pistol and an extended magazine after he was pronounced dead at 7:27 p.m. Court records indicate he had been arrested in May for reckless endangerment and possession of an instrument of a crime, but was found not guilty at trial last month.The shooting brought the number of Philadelphia police officers shot on duty this year to six, the highest total since 2019, according to department data.

“When we finally looked out the window, the number of police who just started flooding the area was pretty crazy,” she said, “but you could see the victim in the street.”

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