Daryl Anthony Birch, 30, black male, accused of shooting a Kmart store worker yesterday shot and killed himself this morning police said as officers attempted to arrest him.
At 7:30 am, police found Birch with a gunshot wound to the head in the upstairs front bedroom his house on 100 block of Albanus Street in Olney.
Birch critically injured an employee at the Kmart store on the 8800 block of Frankford Ave. Police said Birch had been arguing with his girlfriend, who worked at the Kmart, when an employee tried to intervene. Police said Birch opened fire inside the store, striking the victim in the head, chest and arm.
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