In N. Philly gun standoff, alleged cop shooter Maurice Hill has a long criminal history

The Phil ^ | 14 August A.D. 2019 | Samantha Melamed, Jeremy Roebuck, Dylan Purcell and Craig R. McCoy,

[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.

Hill’s 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.

[miserare]

Why was this piece of crap walking the streets? Whatever happened to 3 strikes you’re out? He deserves life without parole this time!

Maybe there will be Federal charges, and he won’t get off with a slap on the wrist. Definitely a Hate Crime...insane hatred of the police.

Put his lawyer in jail, too. He’s been defending this animal for ten years!

[miserare]

If only we could bring back Frank Rizzo!

[Fresh Wind]

...but later was acquitted on all counts.

Sanctuary cities aren't just for illegal aliens.

[Tallguy]

“Dallas (Texas y’all) PD ended this type of standoff using a robot that delivered a satchel bomb and blew up the actor.”

Philadelphia does not have a happy experience with creating IED’s for the purpose of apprehending criminals who have barricaded themselves during a police standoff. Last time it was tried several city blocks in West Philly were burned to the ground.

[ronnie raygun]

He will be out in a week

[Tallguy]

“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.

It was worse than that. The police tried to improvise a “shaped charge” to blow a hole in the roof of the building so that they could assault thru that breach. There was a rooftop “bunker” so the cops decided to lower/toss the satchel containing the explosive onto the roof from a police helicopter. The satchel landed on its side (meaning the charge wasn’t going to blow downward, but rather outward). The MOVE group had stored gasoline on the roof so that they could run their generators and that exploded. Gunfire from the 1st and 2nd floors kept the Philly Fire Department at bay so the fire continued to burn.

[Tallguy]

I believe it went: Dillworth, Tate, then Rizzo.

[bankwalker]

then Goode?

[Tallguy]

Yeah, then Goode who was followed by Bill Green.

[Tallguy]

Sorry, had that backwards... it was Bill Green followed by Wilson Goode.

[a little elbow grease]

With bleeding heart DAs and judges, even a public defender can get these guys sprung.

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This "suspect" is said to have a two day old child.

Does anyone know where the mother and the child are?

[Deo volente]

One would hope he would get life without parole, but in today’s world chances are in a couple years he’ll be right back in that apartment running his drug operation.

[bert]

He will be tried in Africanized Philadelphia..... unless he pleads out to several misdemenors

[bert]

Good one

[Brown Deer]

Clarion Intel Exclusive: Philadelphia Shooter Attended Radical Mosque

Maurice Hill, the criminal who wounded six police officers in a shootout in Philadelphia and was arrested after a seven-hour standoff, attended a radical mosque.

The mosque, called Masjid Ahlil Hadith Wal Athar, is known for preaching the Islamist ideology promoted by Saudi Arabia referred to as “Wahhabism.”

Clarion Intelligence Network has been aware through its sources that the area where the shootings took place is known for trafficking in guns, drugs and counterfeit items. This criminal market has a strong Islamist element that includes extremist gangs.

Hill’s older sister said he “occasionally attended” an unnamed mosque, confirming initial reports from our sources that Hill is a Muslim. The sources do not yet have first-hand evidence of the shooter being personally involved in Islamist extremism.

Clarion Intel’s sources report that Masjid Ahlil Hadith Wal Athar is a Salafi mosque which follows the theocratic teachings of Saudi Arabia’s top Wahhabist scholars.

[Brown Deer]

[Fred Nerks]

A police officer in Philadelphia was shot multiple times, execution style, as he sat in his patrol car, by a man wearing what witnesses described as "Muslim garb" – and not only did he survive, but the suspect was soon-after caught.

The suspect, Edward Archer, 30, of Yeadon, has given a full confession, saying he did it in the name of Islam, according to CBS News. Sources also told Eyewitness News that Archer provided the confession in written form, and his police testimony was recorded on camera, as well.

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