Individual that he had robbed and his friends who caught up with him, physically subdued him until the police came and arrested him. Reporter police say a bleeding mccullough used his Police Issued tourniquet after the shooting and fellow officers rushed him to penn presbyterian hospital. Mccullough is a two year veteran of the force a young father set to be married soon. A fan of rugby and who police are calling a proud example of the bravery men and women in blue exhibit each and every day. Just happy that officer mccullough is going to recover and hes going to be okay but his partner responded the way he was supposed to as well as all the men and women out there. Reporter and police say griffin has been arrested 14 times and just last week he had gun charges dismissed for lack of evidence. As for mccullough he remains in the hospital and is expected to be released sometime tomorrow and is also expected to make a full recovery. Live outside of police headquarters, chad pradelli, channel6 action news. Jim. Thank you, chad. A crossing guard was killed this afternoon when he was hit by a car in trenton. Police say the man was working at the intersection of route 129 and lalor street. Witnesses say a red truck hit another car and the impact sent the truck through into the crossing guard. It happened at 3 30. Fortunately nobody else was hurt. The truck driver was put into a police car but no charges have been announced. Philadelphia police today provided the absolutely gruesome details in the death of fouryearold Tahirah Phillips on saturday. And police have now charged her 30yearold father with her killing. Action News Reporter vernon odom is live in kensington tonight and vernon, what is the latest on this . Reporter jim, police say the murder suspect has now been arrested. Hes formally charged with murder. He confessed completely they say but only after trying to pin the murder on his fiveyearold daughter. This is a neighbors recent photo of fouryearold Tahirah Phillips who died of a gunshot wound to the head saturday afternoon inside her kensington home by the hand of her own father. Under arrest and charged with murder, her father, 30yearold Maurice Phillips police say the child was watching tv with her six siblings ranking in age from 13 years to seven months old when her father entered the room and pulled out his gun. Comes into a room, a very small room, all seven of the kids are in there watching tv. He takes the gun out and in a reckless manner starts waving it and pointing it and it discharges one time and strikes his daughter. Reporter police say phillips tried to frame the killing on his victims fiveyearold sibling. He took blood and actually wiped it on her shirt to try to even more so show that shes the one that fired the lethal shot but once we brought him into the homicide unit obviously we broke down his story and he quickly admitted to his shooting. Reporter police say phillips turned himself in at the Police District before they had to go out and bring him n East Mayfield street sits in one of kensingtons toughest neighborhoods, the bad lands where intimidating drug dealers man the corners violence is frequent. But this one shocks this neighbor who says if convicted he, Maurice Phillips should never see the streets again. Its a stupid idiotic act. He was completely reckless in doing this and unfortunately, you know, a fouryearold has lost her life behind this. Reporter jim, Police Sources tell me tonight that phillips told them he played with that handgun in front of those seven children very frequently. Live in kensington, im vernon odom, channel6 action news. Vernon, thank you. Police say there a pet dog was killed this morning when its owner confronted three criminals in bucks county. Two men and a woman were trying to steal a motorcycle from a driveway on golden gate road in levittown but the homeownerrer came outside to stop them. Thats when one of the suspects fired a shot and killed the homeowners dog. The gunman remains at large. His two accomplices have been arrested. A man and his wife survived when a large tree crushed the front of their suv. It happened at 10 30 this morning. The couple from boston was driving to see family in philadelphia when the tree came down landing across the front windshield of their volkswagen. It happened along the 7300 block of Mccallum Street in mount airy. It happened so fast there was no time to swerve out of the way. My husband saw it coming but there was just nothing you could do really. Smashed in the windshield and the front. Im sure if it had been another foot or so farther back we would have a rather different outcome. Both of them walked away with just a few scratches from the broken glass. Temperatures tried to hit 80 degrees late today on this gorgeous spring day there felt a lot more like summer. The weather will cool as we progress through the week but the sun isnt going anywhere. Lets go outside to cecily tynan with the latest. Did we hit 80 today. We actually hit 82 today. It doesnt feel like april at all. It feels like the summer time and we have been warming up pretty dramatically over the past few days. It was a beautiful weekend, plenty of sunshine. Saturday 67 degrees, sunday 73. Today philadelphia hitting 82 degrees. Thats a whopping 17 degrees above the average high for this time of the year and you can see it really depends on your location because inland temperatures hovering close to 80 degrees, allentown 80, trenton 78, wilmington and reading 79 degrees. But along the coast with that ocean temperature of 53 degrees, theyre getting a sea breeze so right on the beaches temperatures in the low to mid 60s so you definitely need a sweatshirt if youre on the beaches at this hour. Now, satellite6 along with action radar slowing that we do have some changes on the way. That High Pressure ridge is beginning to break down and those clouds that are streaming south from new york state is a cold front. Its coming through a back doorway, coming down from the north and this is creating cooler air so boston finally dropping down to 50 degrees with a wind chill right now after hitting 67 degrees earlier today. So, it was a warm day for the boston marathon. That cooler air will be heading our way. That being said, tomorrows not going to be a cool day, it wont be quite as warm as today but temperatures still above average. It cools off more on wednesday and by the end of the week well really need the rain. Were talking about nine days without a drop of rain. I am tracking showers. Ill let you know when they come in in the full accuweather 7day forecast. Jim. Thank you, cecily. The president ial Campaign Comes to pennsylvania this week both Democratic Candidates have events in the keystone state ahead of the primary next tuesday. Bernie sanders will host a rally tomorrow night at 7 00 at penn state and on wednesday, Hillary Clinton will be in philadelphia at the fill more in fishtown. That event begins at 6 30 wednesday night. On the republican side, donald trump has not announced any additional stops in pennsylvania but ted cruz will be in philadelphia tomorrow night. John kasich will hold a town hall meeting in media, Delaware County on thursday. There is word of a possible break through in atlantic city. A state takeover plan approved by the senate has been facing opposition from Assembly Speaker vincent prieto. He planned to put forth his own version of the bill but today he said that that is on hold, that after a talk over the weekend with Senate President steve sweeney. They are discussing a possible compromise in atlantic city. Coming up on action news tonight, vandals strike a local Italian AmericanHeritage Center and it is not the first time. And the flyers get ready for game three of their planning to honor ed snider on home ice tonight. Those stories plus cecily returns with more on the accuweather 7day forecast. That and more when action news continues tonight. Fight back and rebuild an economy. So does she. We need jobs that provide dignity and a bright future. New penalties to stop companies from moving profits and jobs overseas. For businesses that create manufacturing jobs, a new tax credit. And lets invest in clean energy jobs, with 500 million solar panels installed by the end of her first term. A real plan to create new jobs and industries of the future. Hillary clinton. Im Hillary Clinton and i approve this message. Delaware state Police Investigating the cause of a collision between an suv and a school bus in newark. Firefighters rescued an 86yearold man from the suv. The vehicle landed on its roof at 6 50 this morning along Baltimore Pike old Baltimore Pike. Paramedics took the victim to christiana hospital in serious condition. Students from Kuumba Academy were on the school bus and fortunately nobody was hurt; none of the kids were hurt. Police in Hamilton Township are trying to track down the vandals who obviously have zero respect and zero regard for other peoples property. This is a repugnant act of vandalism and violence and new jersey correspondent Nora Muchanic has the story. I cant take this kind of stuff. Reporter John Scarpatti in hamilton is horrified one day after electing a new statue outside the before this on liberty street vandals toppled the 800pound figure from its perch breaking it into pieces. Concrete dont have no rods in it and the way it hit, the way it hit it just snapped it in half and then broke the arms and hands off. Reporter it happened the friday before last and its not the first time vandals have hit this Italian American club. Not long ago someone defaced this statue of Christopher Columbus that stands at the corner of the property. Last year columbus we had a new columbus statue. They painted the face black and then they wrote, you know, the f word and some other logos. Reporter members are wondering why vandals would target this and try to destroy statues that were put out to beautify the property and commemorate their italian heritage. Trying to be proud of our heritage and were trying to show it and theyre just tearing us down. Reporter the statue is part avenue unique collection of religious figure that is includes these Roman Centurian statues. Police have checked security cameras for leads without success. The volunteers are installing their own camera system at the center. Its coward dis. They cant stand to see somebody have something great in the community. Reporter the broken statue is being kept behind the building and is being replaced with another figure. The Italian AmericanHeritage Center is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of the vandals n Hamilton Township, Nora Muchanic, channel6 action news. Philadelphia mayor jim kenney continued his push today for universal prek. He read to children at a prek center at lasalle university. It is one of the places that would benefit from his proposed sugary drink tax. The mayor was also joined by representatives from the within Reach Campaign and the Philadelphia Federation of teachers. A little girl in Delaware County got the Royal Treatment today from her school mates. [cheers and applause] students at Pennell Elementary School in aston cleared as a Police Escort brought Cameron Mccarthy home from her final treatment at nemours a. I. Dupont hospital. Shes a second grader and has been battling ewing is that correct coma a form of bone cancer. The whole community has been pulling for her and they were quite a welcome today. [cheers and applause] are you sick of harrisburg politicians like Steve Santarsiero, who will say or do anything to advance his career . He claims he wrote pennsylvanias gun safety law. But the truth is he didnt. There is no law requiring universal background checks for all gun purchases. His Campaign Even bragged that he passed 54 bills. In fact, 7 years in harrisburg, Steve Santarsiero has never passed a single bill into law. Im shaughnessy naughton. I approve this message because i am not a career politician. Thats what congressman for wsestak did. Ceos sestak was one of only eight democrats to join republicans to allow ceos of bailed out banks to pay themselves unlimited bonuses using bailout money. An outrage, according to newspapers. For working families Katie Mcginty for senate. Shell invest in education, not ceo bonuses. And fight for pay equity for women. Helping families not wall street. Katie im Katie Mcginty and i approve this message. Flyers obviously cant afford to go down threenothing. Theyre on home ice finally. Technically its not a must win but like you said theyre down ohtwo. Theyre back at home. Flyers can not lose this game. Besides they got to do it for ed tonight. Jeff skversky live at the Wells Fargo Center with more on the tributes. Reporter hey, jamie. The flyers say this place will be rocking tonight for game three against the washington capitals. And that will start before the puck even drops. Flyers fans walking into the building will get this tshirt with ed sniders face in their flyers logo right there and every he fan that walks into the building will also receive a bracelet that will light up during the pregame Video Tribute and lets take a look at the ice. Ed sniders initials ems painted into the ice filled with tributes left and right all over the building. Of course the ultimate honor would be to win game three. And this series against the capitals. They have to focus, though, on getting the puck to the net and beating Braden Holtby tonight in game three which will be emotional. Were here to win a hockey game and we have a game plan. We got to follow it and obviously were going to have a little bit of little bit more emotion before the game but when the puck drops we just got to worry about the game. Its going to be a lot of energy in the building. You know, and theres going to be some emotion in the building obviously with the pregame ceremony for mr. Snider but, you know, you have to embrace those emotions and that energy. Reporter former flyers captain Mike Richards returns to the Wells Fargo Center for the first time in the playoffs of all the players in this series he has the most playoff experience. And from his experience, even here in philly, he knows the flyers will be tough to beat tonight in game three at home. Theyre going to come out hard. Theyre going to play their best and we have to match that. The first five minutes is going to be big for us and we cant sit around waiting to see how theyre going to play. We have to go out there and try to initiate a little bit ourselves. Reporter and the flyers have to find a way to score. Only one goal. Braden holtby stopped 60 of the flyers 61 shots and theyre oh for eight on the power play. As Claude Giroux says they have to get in holtbys face tonight in game three, the puck drops at 7 oclock. Were live at the Wells Fargo Center, jeff skversky, channel6 action news. Jamie. Thanks jeff. The nfl draft now 10 days away and so the eagles under new leadership the pressure is on. Of course the rams move up to number one. Reports are they want jared govern. So is carson went the guy they want. Gov and went similar. Theyre very close. Similar characteristics as quarterbacks, good height, good size, good arm strength, mobility. Theyre very similar, smart intelligent guys that obviously are going to play i feel like going to play a long time in the National Football league. This draft is going to be fascinating. Theres so many things they can do. Quarterback. Quarterback. Offensive lineman. Be nice. Well, what they need. Cecily tynan with the accuweather forecast when we continue in just a moment. The tthan the bottom have mo100 million americans. Nt how does that happen . Well, they use lobbyists to get special tax breaks. My plan close the tax loopholes and make them pay their fair share. Seniors whove worked hard deserve the opportunity to stay independent, pay their bills, and most of all, enjoy their grandchildren. Its time to bring back a basic American Value fairness. Im bernie sanders, and i approve this message. We have breaking news from the mayfair section of philadelphia. Chopper6 is above the 2800 block of cottman where as you can see firefighters are still pouring water on what is a well known and popular neighborhood tavern. The owens cafe got lit by flames this afternoon just about 6 oclock. We have no reports that anybody was hurt. But a strip of stores there was hit by fire. The main brunt of it all felt by the owens cafe. Lets go to that accuweather forecast and cecily tynan. And jim, i had an informal poll on my Facebook Page saying do you