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he called itself defense. well, they came at him for no reason so he knew he was going to be killed. they went there to kill my nephew. they didn t go there to arrest him. they went to kill him. reporter: just to be clear, police commissioner charles ramsey did say that the suspect in this case, fired the first shot, the officer who fired his gun was returning fire. devon gashard was 27 years old. we re live outside police headquarters, matt rivers, cbs-3 eyewitness news . we have more on this, cbs-3 i team has been digging deeper in the background. charlotte huffman is here with what you have learn charlotte. reporter: before today s shooting devon gashard was a name well known by police but his whereabouts not always so clear. today philadelphia police commissioner charles ramsey, said it himself. he has a sense of history. reporter: he was no stranger to the criminal justice system n2012, gashard was arrested and charged with possession with intent to ....
striking the suspect. the officer was saved by his body armor and garshard died in the shootout. he was being hunted down for a shot this killed megan doto, she and her baby died. this is the second time this officer was shot in the line of duty he was tracking down an s&p when the suspect fired through a wall, today the officer was shot in the stomach and was saved by his s.w.a.t. armor. residents here are glad nobody else got shot. it s scary when it happens where you live but you need a sense of calmness, and the cops reacted quickly and it did not get out of hand. the officer is a 17 year veteran of the department and he has a wife and children and they have not released his name to the public before determining if he and his family is safe. thank you david. lets switch live to vernon odom at police headquarters you covered the situation in september when devon shot and killed megan doto. his mugshot was regularly appearing on i-95 billboards and now tha ....
she says she believes another attack is eminent. in other developments, children were among the 22 people killed in monday s attack after that concert. one of them an 8-year-old girl. authorities today identified the suspect. he also died when he set off the bomb near the exit. he was known to british authorities before the attack. con demd the attack. so many people living and enjoying their lives. hundreds gathered outside city hall today to hold a vigil of the victims of monday s attacks. the group is gathering outside philadelphia s city hall. this is a look at the scene just now. it s vulnerable giving terrorists the large scale devastation. there are lots of soft targets down the shore. ted greenberg got exclusive access to a new multimillion dollar security system being put in place. there were quite a few more eyes pretty soon. we certainly are. summer is almost here. with that many more people coming down here to atlantic city to have a good time. a ....
especially because we live a hop, skip and a jump away. reporter: it told people to seek shelter was a mistake. there was no emergency. emergency management officials say the inaccurate information was broadcast to comcast customers during a drill taking place between the salem and nuclear power plant and and state offices of emergency management. there was no mess alk this was a drill. so it went out to several counties. county officials scrambled to inform residents through a a reverse 911 system the alert was a mistake and there was no need to panic. something this long time resident and restaurant owner says he knew in his gut. the siren didn t go off, so i wasn t too surgeon concerned. everybody in the area, you see something like that and don t know what s going on. reporter: the state office of emergency management official says they have identified the coding error and have corrected it. now they say that they hope this never happens again. reporting l i ....
tuesday night at 9:00 p.m. fear grips tens of thousands of people living in south jersey they were alarmed to see this message on their tv a nuclear power plant warning. they feared the worst. panic with everything especially with what is happening in the world today. this was not a test but a big mistake. we learn from new jersey state police that the accident happened during a scheduled safety training exercise. the state police was intended for a small group of emergency management personnel participating in the exercise and as a result of a coding error the message was publically broadcast. edward with the cumberland county emergency services says that the county 911 call center was flooded with calls and the county immediately sent a reverse 911 alerting thousands of residents that the alert was not true. if this was a real emergency, the alert warning system would go out and the sirens would have activated in our scene. it was alarming for many that saw ....