Posted on 08/14/2019 8:08:05 PM PDT by lightman
Police sources identified the gunman in a standoff at a Tioga apartment building that left six police officers injured as Maurice Hill, 36, a Philadelphia man with a lengthy history of gun convictions and of resisting attempts to bring him to justice.
The police sources declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak. Reached by phone about 9:30 p.m. Thursday evening, Shaka Mzee Johnson, the lawyer who most recently represented Hill, confirmed that Hill had a connection to the standoff. Related stories
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My client is requesting me to come to the scene, he said.
The standoff began Thursday about 4:30 p.m. when a Narcotics Strike Force unit attempted to serve a search warrant at a house on the 3700 block of North 15th Street.
For the next few hours, police used bullhorns and phone calls, trying to get him to surrender.
Hills history in the adult criminal justice system began in 2001 when he was 18 and was arrested with a gun that had an altered serial number. Inquirer Morning Newsletter
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Public records show that he has been arrested about a dozen times since turning 18, and convicted six times on charges that involved illegal possession of guns, drug dealing, and aggravated assault. He has been in and out of prison; the longest sentence handed him came in 2010, when a federal judge gave him a 55-month term.
And, his record would indicate, he does not like to go to prison. In 2008, he was convicted of escaping, fleeing from police, and resisting arrest. Along the way, he beat criminal charges on everything from kidnapping to attempted murder.
Hill also spent time in federal prison. In 2008, he pleaded guilty to federal firearms violations after he was caught with a Smith & Wesson .357 and later a Taurus PT .45 semiautomatic. His prior felony convictions should have barred him from owning those weapons. U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond sentenced him to four years and seven months in prison.
More recently, Hill was convicted of perjury in 2013 and sentenced to seven years of probation. He appeared before Common Pleas Court Judge Rayford Means for three different alleged violations of probation at least two of them related to new cases, which he later beat.
In one of those cases, Philadelphia police arrested Hill in May 2014, after spotting him driving an unregistered scooter. But when officers tried to stop him, he raced down an alleyway against traffic on a one way street and then onto a sidewalk, sending pedestrians scattering, court records say. Hill crashed the scooter and then fled on foot but was apprehended. He was charged with driving without a license, recklessly endangering another person, and fleeing police, but later was acquitted on all counts.
Philadelphia police arrested Hill again in October 2014 on charges of drug possession and false imprisonment.
According to court filings, his accuser told police she had agreed to sell marijuana for Hill but then later changed her mind. When he summoned her to his house on the 6900 block of Greenway Street in Southwest Philadelphia days later, she says, she overheard Hill and an associate discussing killing her. Fearful for her life, the woman said, she called 911. When officers arrived, she fled as Hill and his associate hid the crack cocaine and marijuana in a tire out back. Investigators discovered 83 grams of marijuana.
I wondered what the end game was here, but then read that he was attempting to livestream this.
B****** has to sleep sometime.
What about the perp’s nacent rap career ?
Not to reveal too many tactics but between floodlights, choppers, blasting Jay-Z and other (c)rap at 120 db...not a chance.
They can solve this problem for less than $5.
How so?
1 Gallon of gasoline
1 Match
plus either a little gas, kerosene or the tar roof really got it going. that neighbor hood needs some gentrifying anyways, I mean Temple needs some new off campus student housing.
This is why we need red flag laws.
(dripping /s)
The rap career will happen soon enough. Usually his sentences mean in the front door out the back. Since he shot 6 cops that mean 6 days in jail, them out the back
The Democrats are not holding back tonight; all of them are talking about banning ‘assault weapons’ - you know, anything that’s not a bolt action single shot rifle, nor been updated since the 1940’s. (of course those will become military firearms and subject to ban shortly afterward...)
Meanwhile, how many died in Chicago in this week? Ahh, yes, 2 killed, 33 wounded. Gonna bet most of those were handguns, Democrat’s next target...
It’d sure be nice to see a Republican stand up and go ‘you know, it might be more effective going after the criminals rather than the law abiding citizens who comply even with draconian and insane laws. Obviously the Democrat plan of turning them into voters and releasing them onto our streets isn’t working.’
They can solve this problem for less than $5.
How so?
1 Gallon of gasoline
1 Match
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They ‘tried’ that a few years back.
They were trying to smoke a ‘radical’ group out of a row house and lobbed either a stun grenade or tear gas bomb into the row house and they had ammo stored in the attic and the ensuing fire took out a few blocks.
One of the first ‘Urban Renewal’ projects..<: <: <:
Yea, That’s a good WASP name!!!
You seriously mean that there are TWO parties?
There are two parties; DJT and the Swamp.
“Urban Renewal” the Frank Rizzo way!
It worked.
That was Wilson Goode’s work, not Frank Rizzo’s.
I think their stored garbage caught fire. Not sure about any secondary explosion, but ammo is pretty harmless in a fire.
This cant be Philadelphia. Isnt that the city of brotherly love? There has to be some mistake here. Probably spell check misspelled Baltimore.
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See post #30
I knew all along it was a white supremacist!
Oh wait... .
Yep. Another mistake, probably a wrong picture. That guy dont look Amish. Must be fake news.
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