jason: that is audio from the hours long philadelphia police standoff last night that left six officers injured. the heroism is unbelievable to me. these men and women, the greatest respect. amazing. what they do and how they do it. we have learned the suspect has a very long criminal violent criminal history. the big question, how was he not in prison? this was someone who needed to be off the streets. more than enough charges, so that mr. maurice hill may never exit jail. jason: chris o connell of our news affiliate wtxf is live with details. jason, investigators a few hours ago were able to get back into that home where the gunman really paralyzed this section of north philadelphia last night
units, use caution. jason: that is audio from the hours-long philadelphia police standoff last night that left six officers injured. the heroism there is unbelievable to me. these men and women, the greatest respect. amazing. what they do and how they do it. we have learned the suspect has a very long violent, violent criminal history. the big question, how was he not in prison? this was someone who needed to be off the streets. these are more than enough charges so that mr. maurice hill may never exit jail. jason: chris o connell, of our news affiliate wtxf, is live with the late-breaking details.chris, w? jason, investigators a few hours ago were able to get back into that home where the gunman really paralyzed this section of north philadelphia last night
there is drug involvement here. depending on how this investigation develops, it is very likely that there may be some drug charges. conspiracy, possibly even a conspiracy that encompasses more days on this one particular day. involving drug activity. an awful lot of these details are not available to us now. many of them may not even be available to police yet. there has been some collaboration and coordination between both federal and state authorities. there may be additional sources of information, as well. i am saying more than we usually say, because i understand the public wants to know more, and rightly so. but i would say that there would be a lot of charges. these are more than enough charges, so that mr. maurice hill may never exit jail. reporter: he had an attempted murder charge a little over a decade ago. what you know about that case? i don t, i don t specifically
danger to the public and to law enforcement. i would say there will be a lot of charges. these are more than enough charges so that mr. maurice hill may never exit jail. dana: gary, your thoughts on that before we bring in phillip holloway? well, that s exactly right. if somebody has the propensity towards violence, law enforcement takes great effort to do great investigation to put violent people in jail. i think there is that level of frustration that we all have to start to look at to say, if you are violent, if you ve committed violent acts in the past, you have to be held accountable. clearly, this individual did not learn from the time that he did spend in jail and it s evident with what he did last night. dana: i want to bring in phil holloway, former district attorney, having been a police officer as well. phil, your thoughts about this entire episode, as we wait for the press conference to get under way. your thoughts about just getting criminals to be able to stay