Gunman ambushes Philadelphia cop in cruiser; officer stable

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - A gunman ambushed a police officer as he sat in his marked cruiser at an intersection, striking him three times in the arm during a barrage of bullets and fleeing before being apprehended, officials said Friday.

Police Commissioner Richard Ross said the suspect fired at least 13 shots late Thursday as he walked toward Officer Jessie Hartnett and eventually got up next to the car and reached through the driver's-side window.

The officer returned fire, hitting his attacker at least three times. Hartnett was in stable condition.

"I don't know how this officer survived," Ross said.

"This is absolutely one of the scariest things I've ever seen," the commissioner said. "This guy tried to execute the police officer. The police officer had no idea he was coming."

The officer's father, Robert Hartnett, said his son was in good spirits.

"He's a tough guy," he said.

Hartnett, 33, had served eight years in the Coast Guard and joined the police five years ago. He always wanted to be a police officer, his father said.

"I'm bleeding heavily!" Hartnett shouted into his police radio when he called in to report shots fired.

The suspect ran away but was quickly apprehended by other officers, authorities said.

Ross, who was sworn in as commissioner Tuesday, said there was no apparent motive for the attack.

"Why someone would do something so absolutely evil is just beyond us," Ross said.

There was no immediate word on the suspect's condition. Officer Christine O'Brien said the man was stuck at least once in the buttock.

Jim Kenney, in his first week as mayor of the nation's fifth-largest city, said, "There are just too many guns on the streets, and I think our national government needs to do something about that."

His statement comes on the heels of President Barack Obama's announcement Tuesday of his plan to tighten gun control laws.

i already seen an article saying he did it for ISIS...

http://gma.yahoo.com/dramatic-photos-capture-moment-gunman-allegedly-tried-execute-161800687--abc-news-topstories.html#

Yea the guy said he did it in the name of Islam....and in other terrorist news, 2 refugees arrested last night on terror related charges...one in CA and one in Houston

yea, i read that last night... time to lock and load out here... open carry just in time!

The gun he used was stolen too.

they seem to have figured that out pretty quick... a stolen police gun...

Obama has made it open season on our police.

Yea saw it on the press conference earlier today. It was stolen from an officers home in 2013. Guess they matched the serial number to the burglary report or whatever....

What? No background check?

Nah, the shooter failed to make sure he followed the law on that....

This is so sad... All for Islam.. yeah right....
The new defense
I can see it now..
No jail your honour my client did for religious reason.
We need to have understanding
He needs therapy not prison time
that would make him a criminal.

Maybe if this gun had been better secured or micro chipped they could have recovered it before it was used for such a tragedy.

I am sure the officer that it was stolen from is beside himself for his brother officer.

I hate to think we have to put our officers behind bullet proof glass in their cruisers but if it takes that to keep them safe I would pay that tax willingly.

And I think if it takes making police officers sworn federal officers also, so if you kill a police officer, you get the death penalty I would vote for that. I am sick and tired of it being open season on the lives of our police officers.

I don;t know anything regarding how secured the gun was int he officers home, just that it had been stolen from there; so I can not comment on if it had been better secured. However I have to agree with the fact that if it had been microchipped, or had a trigger that was only an eighth of an inch wider so it could read his finger print in order to be operated things may have been different.

As far as harsher sentences for who you murder, I have never agreed with that. Murder is murder, pure and simple. it is no more evil to take a police officers life than it is to take somebody's grandmother who is having her hair permed at the beauty parlor. The officer wasn't better than the grandmother, and I am sure the grandmother was not better than the officer, lol.

Yes, we are effected more if it was a little old lady or a child that gets killed versus a punk on the street that tried to steal a purse, but in the end it is still just murder and the sentence should be the same across the board (based on the individual case and not the victim). This is why people who have been busted for having an ounce of pot on them three times are now looking at life in prison with no parole and murders and rapists are looking at only 5 - 10 with time off for good behavior.

Achhh.. Fry the f@cker.
He is a terrorist.

And IF he is a citizen....
Charge him with treason.
Then fry em'


Philadelphia Mayor Vows ISIS-Linked Police Shooting Had Nothing To Do With Islam!

http://youtu.be/AiJDmou0Wy0/ 01:34


This bozo mayor ^^^^ acting like he is the Mayor of Cologne Germany or Mrs Merkel herself..with DENIAL

I can (slimly) understand the idea of charging him as a terrorist, but what grounds do you have for suggesting treason? He is not threatening or causing direct harm to the Country by his acts, thus he is not acting in a treasonous manner

you need to explain what a Microchip could have done that a physical S/N couldn't?

What are you referring to when you say "a physical s/n"?

As far as to what a microchip could have done, it is very simple: the microchip can be programmed to only activate (thus allowing the weapon to electronically unlock) when certain conditions are met. Those conditions could include a microchip that is also in the officers badge being within say 3 feet of the weapon, among other possibilities.

Until I know what you meant by "s/n" I can not say if that is different or not

you need to read up on what Cops have to say about Smart Guns!

http://www.breitbart.com/video/2016/01/08/house-homeland-security-secretary-philly-officer-shooter-acted-on-islamic-state-orders-from-syria/

House Homeland Security Secretary: Philly Officer Shooter Acted on Islamic State Orders From Syria

Friday in a report from Fox News Channel’s Peter Doocy, Rep. Mike McCaul (R-TX), the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, explained that following a briefing on the shooting of a Philadelphia police officer by a suspect that had claimed to be acting at the behest of ISIS, it was his conclusion that individual was acting at the direction of ISIS.

“So once again we have a radicalized individual in the United States trying to kill law enforcement,” McCaul said. “And when you look at the Internet activity coming out of Raqqa, Syria, into the United States every day – 200,000 tweets per day – the message is clear: Kill military, attack military installations, and kill police officers. It’s in my judgment that this individual’s carrying out these directives – these orders, if you will – coming out of Raqqa, Syria, from ISIS.”

ok, under that basis I can understand the terrorism basis and even agree. You still have not answered me though in regards to what you meant by "physical s/n" ;-)