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.
There were two cops trapped on the floor above the shooter along with three perps in handcuffs. They made their way out somehow. Shooter was on floor below them, supposedly shooting up through the ceiling. Awfully dicey but all in all the cops were in a relatively advantageous position given the circumstances.
Same manure, different pile.
This guy should be doing serious time for the litany of crap he dodged. The criminal justice system isn’t broken. But I can point out several Pennsylvania judges who are.
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Not hostage, but pinned down.
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“...Useless air-sucker....”
Exactly. POSs like that need to just “disappear” never to be seen or heard from ever again....just gone from the face of the planet....worm food.
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I think the main problem in all these inner city murders and shooting is that there are laws on the books that a felon can not have a gun. Nobody, the feds prosecute that law, or very rarely.
One gun control law I’m up for is a 20 year no parole sentence for a felon in possession or using a gun. The feds need to get busy.
This felon has been repeatedly about 12 times locked up for violent felonies. WHY WAS HE OUT?
#2. It’s Philadelphia, Jake, forget it!
Corrupted since the mid-70’s when the Dems and black leftists took the city over and it never recovered.
I lived there at school in the early/mid 60’s and the Democrat mayor Dillworth was actually a nice guy who introduced “homesteading” (home ownership to low income renters in the areas just below Temple Un (below Montgomery Ave and Broad). It was a success.
Next came former Police Chief Rizzo who tried to hold the line against the massive drug trafficking at Broad and Diamond, but the Dems won the next election ahd the decline started right then and there.
In Chiraq, they would release him without bail and then the DA would decline to prosecute. Standard procedure directed by Mayor Groot, Crimesha the DA, and Chicago Police Superintendent Special Ed.
I was going on ‘memory’ ...here is the full story..it starts in 1972 and 1977 (when Rizzo was Commish or Mayor) for the first confrontation..
In the 1985 (what I was referring to) I believe Goode was Mayor and the Police Commish was Sambor...
https://mashable.com/2016/01/10/1985-move-bombing/
The POS surrendered to the cops a bit before midnight Eastern time. None would have occurred if the animal had been locked up for life, as he should have been long ago.
I have been a licensed attorney in Pennsylvania since 1991. (Also licensed to practice law in a couple of other states.) Attorney Shaka Con committed perjury by filing a false affidavit and lying under oath. Each act is a 3rd degree felony.
Color me shocked that he wasnt disbarred And incarcerated.
See! You see! That ale a white gun toating racist and Trump and the Russians paint him black to try to make it look like blacks are criminals. Hands up don’t shoot!
Especially with that Soros bit*h, Krasner being DA.
His clients must all be wealthy, he’s got it all, silk suits, gold and diamond bling, fancy car...bulldog struts like he owns the neighbourhood.
Wasn't it already illegal for this dude to have guns?
And I get arrested and spend 7 days in County for a $52.50 NSF Check.
Plus all the other BS.
Oh! Wait, I’m a white guy.
Now it all makes sense...
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