In the city’s war against violence, there have been three police shootings in less than two weeks.The first shooting rang in 2008, when shortly after midnight a police officer fired 11 shots at a man who’d been standing on a porch in East Germantown, shooting his gun into the air to celebrate the New Year.
The officer’s bullets cut through the home’s front door. Inside, the 30 or so partygoers ran for cover.
One of them, 33-year-old Abede Wallace was shot five times. Wallace had been trying to save his girlfriend's son, Nyger Page, 9, by pushing him up the stairs. Page suffered a graze wound. Two other men were wounded by the gunfire. Wallace later died of his wounds
Then last night, around 9:30, police shot and killed Timothy Goode, 24, believed to be a relative of former mayor W. Wilson Goode.
Being chased by police in Germantown, Goode apparently turned his gun on plain clothes narcotics officers. News reports say a 9mm semi automatic handgun and a bag containing 45 crack vials were recovered from the scene.
That same night, police shot and killed 21-year-old Trevar Cephas. According to news reports, two officers were attempting to remove a large crowd from a North Philadelphia street corner. Cephas, talking to one of the officers, pulled a gun from his waistband. One officer ordered him to drop the weapon. Instead Cephas raised his gun and was shot once in the stomach. He was pronounced dead around 1am at Temple University Hospital.
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