Good afternoon sara ahov and we are following breaking news from delaware county. They announced the arrest of dijon lee, charged with assaulting nine different women over three years. Lee is facing charges of rape, homicide and robbery. And investigators say he would hide and wait for unassuming women that were walking alone and then attack. They are urging more possible victims to come forward. Vernon odom has more in a live report coming up at 12 30. And following new information about a local man shot to death by police. Sources tell action news that the man allegedly hit and dragged a Police Officer with a van in southwest philadelphia hours before he was killed in delaware last night. Action news has Team Coverage of the investigation. Jeanette reyes spoke to the suspects family if philadelphia and we start with john rawlins and the latest from the shooting scene in newcastle. Reporter hi rick, Details Remain sketchy as far as official information coming out of here and police wi
Search to find him. Now the details a suspected serial rapist in Delaware County is in custody. Nine different women were attacked over a period of time. And some were raped and some were robbed. And they fear there could be more victims out there. Vernon odom is live in media with the details. Reporter good afternoon rick, the suspect, dijon lee, has been taken to the District Court in the city of chester for formal arraignment, he is accused of being a brutal mass predator. This is dijon lee age 19 of chester. The delaware da says he is a serial rapist and assaulter of women. All of his alleged victims dating back three years to when lee was 16 years old and under arrest since early january after one accuser saw him at a store where she worked and called police and lee has confessed for all the crimes with which he is charge sod far. Including six rapes and attempted murder and gun point robberies. What this individual would do, this individual would stalk women and terrorize women a
And drags her into a secluded area and forcibly attacks her and rapes her and robs her and beats her. Two points. One being the father of five daughters, two, two of these attacks happened two blocks from my home. Lee was arrested at this supermarket on january 6 and when one of his victims recognized him and called meets. The da says that lee served time on gun charges but never for sex crimes. It was last winter that he was locked up on other gun charge that could take a long time to yield results. It takes a year to get dna back unfortunately. The police force tells me this are certain that lee is involved in many, many more cases and want the victim tods call them right away and tell them their story so they can possibly file more charges. Im vernon odom, channel 6 action news. Thank you. Well, a confrontation with police that started in southwest philadelphia came to a deadly end with police in Newcastle County, delaware. Family members identified the suspect as 28yearold leroy br
Flees. He was trying to get away from police. He wasnt the best kid on the block but in pursuit of trying to get away they discharged their gun and anyone of those kids could have been shot. Two hours later Newcastle County police learned he could be in this apartment complex and neighbors hear them knocking on doors. Not even five minutes later we heard gunshots. Police say that brown wounded by Philadelphia Police managed to flee. He made it to this nearby car where he was taken to the local hospital where he later died. He was already shot by the Philadelphia Police so how much altercation could he have had with the Delaware Police i need to know if he was shot standing up sitting down and what position was he in. He was already wounded. The situation continues. In other news, the suspected serial rapist intel wear county is off the streets. 19yearold dijon leah tacked nine women over three years, according to authorities lee struck while the women were walking and dragged them to a
Cycling alone. And all of these victims were fighting him and terrorized and he would rob them and rape them. And the da gave details on all nine cases this one from december of last year case number eight. He grab a young lady at 7 00 on a sunday morning and pulls her into a park playground area and brutally rapes and attacks her. Lee had done jail time on a gun charge when it was february of last year he was arrested again and authorities decided to do a dna tax. And two more attacks occurred before the dna matches came back in february. The da says it can sometimes take a year to get the report from the Pennsylvania State police lab. They were able to pull a sample in february of 2016 and the results came back in january of 2017 and we were able to match dna results to this individual. Lee was arrested in early january at the eddie stone supermarket when one alleged victims recognized him and called police. Reporter jim, tonight police say that if you recognize dejohn lee as your at