Posted on 08/14/2019 8:08:05 PM PDT by lightman
Police sources identified the gunman in a standoff at a Tioga apartment building that left six police officers injured as Maurice Hill, 36, a Philadelphia man with a lengthy history of gun convictions and of resisting attempts to bring him to justice.
The police sources declined to be identified because they were not authorized to speak. Reached by phone about 9:30 p.m. Thursday evening, Shaka Mzee Johnson, the lawyer who most recently represented Hill, confirmed that Hill had a connection to the standoff. Related stories
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“My client is requesting me to come to the scene,” he said.
The standoff began Thursday about 4:30 p.m. when a Narcotics Strike Force unit attempted to serve a search warrant at a house on the 3700 block of North 15th Street.
For the next few hours, police used bullhorns and phone calls, trying to get him to surrender.
Hill’s history in the adult criminal justice system began in 2001 when he was 18 and was arrested with a gun that had an altered serial number. Inquirer Morning Newsletter
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Public records show that he has been arrested about a dozen times since turning 18, and convicted six times on charges that involved illegal possession of guns, drug dealing, and aggravated assault. He has been in and out of prison; the longest sentence handed him came in 2010, when a federal judge gave him a 55-month term.
And, his record would indicate, he does not like to go to prison. In 2008, he was convicted of escaping, fleeing from police, and resisting arrest. Along the way, he beat criminal charges on everything from kidnapping to attempted murder.
Hill also spent time in federal prison. In 2008, he pleaded guilty to federal firearms violations after he was caught with a Smith & Wesson .357 and later a Taurus PT .45 semiautomatic. His prior felony convictions should have barred him from owning those weapons. U.S. District Judge Paul S. Diamond sentenced him to four years and seven months in prison.
More recently, Hill was convicted of perjury in 2013 and sentenced to seven years of probation. He appeared before Common Pleas Court Judge Rayford Means for three different alleged violations of probation — at least two of them related to new cases, which he later beat.
In one of those cases, Philadelphia police arrested Hill in May 2014, after spotting him driving an unregistered scooter. But when officers tried to stop him, he raced down an alleyway against traffic on a one way street and then onto a sidewalk, sending pedestrians scattering, court records say. Hill crashed the scooter and then fled on foot but was apprehended. He was charged with driving without a license, recklessly endangering another person, and fleeing police, but later was acquitted on all counts.
Philadelphia police arrested Hill again in October 2014 on charges of drug possession and false imprisonment.
According to court filings, his accuser told police she had agreed to sell marijuana for Hill but then later changed her mind. When he summoned her to his house on the 6900 block of Greenway Street in Southwest Philadelphia days later, she says, she overheard Hill and an associate discussing killing her. Fearful for her life, the woman said, she called 911. When officers arrived, she fled as Hill and his associate hid the crack cocaine and marijuana in a tire out back. Investigators discovered 83 grams of marijuana.
Ping.
No idea who appointed the various catch and release judges.
If elected, one guess as to “D” or “R”
Clearly more gun laws would’ve prevented this.
With what sounds like a decent attorney.
Because he was a criminal with a gun, it proves we need more gun control because more laws would have prevented this.
The fellas are committing three or more ‘mass shooting’ per day and fake news says little...
seems to me, was issued a lot of sentences but walked in the front door of Curran/Fromhold and 5 minutes later, right out the back.
Obviously, a Trump-inspired, Fox news-watching white supremacist that bought his gun at a gun show /S
Dallas (Texas y’all) PD ended this type of standoff using a robot that delivered a satchel bomb and blew up the actor.
With bleeding heart DAs and judges, even a public defender can get these guys sprung.
but I think I saw he has 2 cops hostage
Did not look at article (yes, me bad) but based upon the shylock’s name, I must guess the suspect is Amish. After all, Pennsylvania, so he MUST be Pennsylvania’s Dutch, right? </sarc>
obviously you’ll see in the article many times his violent charges were dismissed. Often that has to be with internal police problems like the 72 just punished and some fired for racial internet crap. Once that happens the DA goes back and dismisses all their cases. Justice served. HELL NO
If he goes to the same courts he's been going to, he might get as much as several years for this.
True, but this guy's had a admirable winning streak.
KYW News Radio Philadelphia: https://player.radio.com/listen/station/kyw-newsradio-1060#.XVTQXHdFzIU
Time for the MOVE-er manuever!
For those in Sinshiem that is a satchel bomb on steroids.
Aerial fireworks on a grand scale.
Maurice Hill? I’m guessing a “white supremacist?” /s/
Time for the MOVE-er manuever!
For those in Sinshiem that is a satchel bomb on steroids.
Aerial fireworks on a grand scale.
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