PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia’s police commissioner says the manhunt for two suspects in a fatal carjacking is on hold, as detectives question two men who are believed to have information.
Police haven’t called the two men suspects. But Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey told a radio station (KYW-AM) that he believes “we don’t have to have a manhunt out there right now.” He said, “Let’s deal with what we have now.”
Police have been focused on the search since three siblings, ages 7 to 15, were killed Friday when they were struck by a carjacked SUV. Their mother was critically hurt.
Two other women were injured, including a real estate agent carjacked at gunpoint about a mile away. She was ordered into the back seat of her Toyota 4Runner as the men sped through North Philadelphia. Police believe they may have blown a tire before crashing the vehicle.
A $110,000 reward is being offered in the homicide case.
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136-a-03-(Unidentified neighbor, in interview)-“if they don’t get caught”-This man, who lives near the crash site, hopes police make an arrest soon. COURTESY: KYW TV ((mandatory on-air credit)) (28 Jul 2014)
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137-a-12-(Unidentified neighbor, in interview)-“off the street”-This man, who lives in the area where the woman and her children were struck, expects whoever did it to confess. COURTESY: KYW TV ((mandatory on-air credit)) (28 Jul 2014)
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APPHOTO PAMR101: Richard Starchia pays his respects Monday, July 28, 2014, at a makeshift memorial for three children who were killed Friday by a hijacked car that lost control and hit a group of people in Philadelphia. Police investigators are talking to two people in connection with the search for two carjackers who rammed a stolen sport utility vehicle into a family in north Philadelphia, killing three children. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke) (28 Jul 2014)
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