Big story on action news tonight is a pedestrians lethal response to an attempted robbery. Action News Reporter, kenneth met enis live at Delaware County Memorial Hospital kenneth, what is the the latest here. Reporter jim, action news has confirmed the name of that suspect robber, it is 18 yearold Tyler Williams have of West Philadelphia. That last check that 67 yearold man was still being treated for chest pains after this shooting, but police say that he is expect to survive after a fight for his life. Tonight upper darby residents across from Cobbs Creek Park are praising the 67 yearold man who for the back after a would be robber tried to make him a victim. You know, you have to protect yourself, you know it is a sad situation. Reporter police say around 2 30 near 6700 block of church lane man was out for a walk and a on a path when a robber ran up and demanded cash. Heres somebody running behind him, as he turns out, he sees a masked man with a gunpointed at him saying give it up
Lehigh valley to the poconos and temperatures drop below freezing and the untreated surfaces get slick. The computer models, are a good consensus a coating to less than an inch. Not a big storm. Im tracking the potential for a more significant snow event sunday night through monday, ill talk about that in the full accuweather forecast. All right cecily thank you. Whenever wintry weather hits keep an eye on the Storm Tracker 6 radars at 6abc. Com weather, we have the hourly and sevenday forecasts along with the latest call from the team of meteorologists here at action news. Action news has learned that Pennsylvania State treasurer rod mccord is the subject of an investigation, they are looking into alleged theft of campaign and other funds meantime he announced he was resigning affect february 12th despite there was two years left in his term. The democrat lost the gubernatorial primary to tom wolf and he will appoint a new treasurer to finish out the two years of his term. A doctor an
A thousand miles. So, this is going to cause a lot of travel problems for the first half of the weekend. Now, the arrival time, that moisture will be moving up from the south to the north so it will be overtaking southern delaware, central delaware and the far southern end of new jersey between now and about 8 oclock. It will be moving into philadelphia primarily in the form of snow between 8 00 and up across the northern Lehigh Valley and the poconos between 10 00 and midnight. What you get from the system depends on your location. For details on that lets head over to meteorologist adam joseph. Yeah, it will make three stops. It will first go to the north and west where well see most of the snow and a period of icing as well. So it begins as snow overnight tonight and an extended period of snow into the wee hours of saturday morning but there will also be a transition zone as it tries to fliptory to rain anywhere between Downingtown Pottstown Quakertown to allentown as far north as e
Dover, 42 arena wildwood, 43. Satellite and radar, we have a cold front sitting right there along the pa new york state line that will drift to the south over the next 24 to 36 hours. That means the colder air will funnel back in from new england. You can see where its situated by double scan live. Rain to the west where we are picking up the shades of blue, thats a combination of sleet and freezing rain. This whichs like its falling in our neck of the woods is not reaching the ground at this point. Were monitoring this over the next 24 hours. Today is like a spring fling, if you will, 50 degrees in philadelphia. 54 55, millville dover jersey shore, 50, as well. Winter weather advisory goes into effect monday as the cold air works south. Yairms in the lavender areas shaded in the lavender color could see snow and ice into Tuesday Morning. Remember anytime wintery weather moves into the area. You can keep track of the conditions with the Storm Tracker 6 live app. It will give you hourly
Tables, and pulled his own weapon and struck one robber in the head head, killing him. I knew he was dead, he wasnt moving, i kept calling and he wasnt moving i just called 911. Officers rushed here after the 68yearold victim walked to the philadelphia side to call 911 and paramedic his to rush him to the hospital he was suffering from chest pains. I talked to him in the ambulance, he was shook up and upset but at the end of the day he is alive. Upper darby detectives canvassed the area and looked for his partier, his deceased partner had a toy gun and a mask on him. They tried to rob the wrong guy, preliminarily they robbed the wrong guy. Period. Again sources say that police have identified the suspected robber as an 18yearold West Philadelphia man his body was just removed from this park, detectives will question the 68yearold man as soon as possible. As you heard he had a concealed weapons permit. Kenneth moton channel 6 action news. Thank you kenneth, we have breaking news tonight