By Morgan Zalot
Daily News Staff Writer
Philadelphia Daily News
Cops in Olney and Logan were on high alert Thursday
night after police say "credible threats" were made by gang thugs who
said they were going to kill a police officer in retaliation for a fatal
police-involved shooting earlier this week.
The message
went out on police radio at 5 p.m. warning police to use extreme caution
when responding to 2nd Street and Nedro Avenue — the scene of Sunday's
shooting — and to Rockland between Broad and 13th.
The shooting occurred
after cops stumbled upon a gunbattle at 2nd and Nedro about 1 a.m.
Sunday. Officers saw a man on foot exchanging gunfire with the driver of
an SUV. Police said the man refused to drop his weapon and pointed it
at a cop, prompting the officer to shoot him in the head.
The
man, later identified as Vanna "Tiny" Sok, 25, later died at Albert
Einstein Medical Center. Police said the other suspected shooter in that
gunbattle — which police believed stemmed from another shooting in
January — was arrested later Sunday.
Police spokesman Lt. Raymond Evers said the threats were just rumors, but supervisors said they were taking them seriously.
Sources
said the threats started Wednesday, and investigators on Thursday
interviewed a neighborhood source familiar with the situation.
"Actually
interviewing somebody is different than someone on the street just
saying, ‘I'm gonna kill a cop,'" one police supervisor told the Daily
News.
Sources said investigators were exploring the possibility
that Sunday's gunbattle was retaliation for the Jan. 31 murder of Sophos
Siv, 40, who was tied up, severely beaten and fatally shot inside his
home on Ruscomb Street near 2nd. Sources said police believe the
violence is a result of a clash between gangs in the neighborhood.
In
the 35th District, which encompasses both locations, sources said some
police cruisers were stocked with shotguns and automatic rifles. When
police were called to either location, they were required to respond
with two units and a supervisor — five officers total.
Police supervisors decided against flooding the blocks in question with cops.
"We're trying not to incite a confrontation," a supervisor said. "But we're also not gonna turn around and run away."
Contact
Morgan Zalot at 215-854-5928 or zalotm@phillynews.com. Follow her on
Twitter @morganzalot and read her blog, PhillyConfidential.com.
2 comments:
this community were being single out by cops. look like the polices were stocked with shotguns and automatic rifles. they ready to shoot then trying the other ways.
Cops are racism motivation to kill these people because the neighborhood that they were living in is poor and vested with crimes,mostly low income neighborhood that has minority like Khmers people& black America people or Spanish people.The death man can't defense himself....
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