William Ciccoli Jr., 42, was struggling with Cpl. Anthony Fischer while another officer was attempting to place him under arrest when he grabbed Fischer’s gun and fired one shot, authorities said.
The park ranger, a 40-year-old man, was stabbed in the head and near his right eye during a scuffle with a man at 18th and Walnut Streets in Rittenhouse Square at 4:18 p.m., police said.
The crashes occurred just hours before a vigil for traffic victims was held Sunday in Center City at the site of where a CHOP doctor was killed Wednesday night riding her bike in a bike lane.
The child was stabbed in the left forearm outside on South 18th Street, just off Spruce Street. Earlier in the day, a woman was stabbed in the chest and finger near 13th and Locust.
Officers heard “several” gunshots when they responded to a 911 call reporting more than 500 juveniles gathered at Broad Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue just after 4:30 p.m., police said.
McCormick, who lost a close GOP primary race to celebrity doc Mehmet Oz last year, now has the full support of his party as he takes on Bob Casey, the longest serving Pa. Democrat in Senate history.
Ashley McLean-Gaylor, of Glenolden, was crossing Lindbergh Boulevard westbound on foot around 2:30 a.m. when she was struck by a Honda Accord traveling southbound on 84th Street, police said.
It is the second such declaration of the summer and takes effect noon Monday and
continues until at least 8 p.m. Tuesday, with heat indexes of 100 to 104 degrees
expected.