Police Quickly Nab Germantown Murder Suspect
By Dan Wing
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Fast acting police officers arrest a man just minutes after a shooting in Germantown left a man dead Wednesday night.
The officers were on patrol when they heard gunshots in the area of 29th and Germantown Avenue a little after 10 p.m.
Chief Inspector Scott Small tells CBS 3 Eyewitness News that shortly after they found a crime scene.
"They saw a male laying in the highway bleeding heavily, and they saw another male running west on Cambria Street with a gun in his hand."
Police identify the victim as 46-year-old Jorge Lopez.
Small says the officers apprehended that 23-year-old after a two block chase.
The 46-year-old victim had been shot twice, once in the arm and once in the chest.
He was taken to Temple Hospital where he was pronounced dead around 10:30 p.m.