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Philly police fatally shot 24-year-old man following traffic stop
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The scene of fatal shooting in Logan on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. (NBC10)
The Philadelphia Police Department has released more details about a traffic stop in the city’s Logan neighborhood that ended in five officers fatally shooting at 24-year-old James Alexander Wednesday night.
One of the five officers responding to the stop also had to be taken to the hospital for a gunshot wound to the foot.
According to the police account, the shooting was preceded by a traffic stop at around 6:45 p.m. Two police officers pulled over the blue Kia sedan Alexander was in after the driver of the car did not stop at a stop sign on the 1500 block of Somerville Avenue.
Family IDs suspect killed in police-involved shooting, disputes Philadelphia police accounts
Family identifies suspect killed in police-involved shooting in Logan
Family members have identified the suspect who was shot and killed by Philadelphia police during a traffic stop on Thursday as 24-year-old James Poppie Alexander.
LOGAN - The family of a man who was fatally shot by police during a traffic stop turned gun battle in Logan on Wednesday said the man never fired at police and was trying to run away when he was gunned down.
FOX 29 s Steve Keeley spoke to family members who identified 24-year-old James Alexander as the man shot and killed by police on the 1500 block of West Somerville Avenue just before 7 p.m.