Philadelphia Daily News
Police patrolling the Frankford area pulled up during an attempted armed robbery Tuesday night and arrested a man after he ran from the cops and fought with an officer behind a house on Hawthorne Street.
Chief Inspector Scott Small gave this account:
About 8:25 p.m., police in the 15th District stopped on the corner of Pratt Street and Hawthorne and saw two men arguing.
“They pulled up and one male said the other male had a gun,” Small said.
One of the officers got out of the squad car, and the man — who police said is 22 years old and lives in Southwest Philadelphia — took off running down Hawthorne Street.
The man ran behind a house, and the officer followed him.
The cop and the attempted armed robber got into a brief struggle and the suspect threw a black handgun in the air.
The officer fired two shots and arrested the man. Police said the suspect was not wounded.
Cops found the man’s handgun in a back yard four houses away from where the officer arrested him. The man’s identity has not yet been released.
The police officer sustained a minor injury to his knee during the struggle with the suspect.
He was taken to Jeanes Hospital, and was a later released.
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