Only CBS3 is taking you inside the apartment where police say a gunman opened fire in Frankford, shooting a SEPTA transit officer. A man who lives in the apartment says he was laying down when the suspect kicked open his door. MattPetrillo reports
. Only Eyewitness News is taking you inside where police say the gunman opened fire, and we also have viewer video from the very moment the officer was hit.Those who live in Frankford, where the gun battle happened, are calling him a hero.Twenty-eight-year-old SEPTA police officer Ervis Onuzi was shot in the stomach Wednesday night after covering another police officer from a gunman who police say had just shot two women.
A man who lives in apartment three didn’t want to be on camera but says he was laying down when the suspect kicked open his door. You can see the busted door frame. The tenant was able to escape unharmed. Police say the gunman fired through a second-floor window down below at officers. Viewer video appears to capture the moments Onuzi was struck.Police exchanged fire. The bullet holes in this wall and shattered windows on the floor tell the story of the gun battle.“Like pop, pop, pop,” one resident said.His fellow men and women in blue cheered as Onuzi came out of surgery, showing over FacetTime he was going to be OK.
“It was everything. It just gave us all such a relief hence the cheering that we all did. We were just so glad to see that his eyes were open, he recognized that we were out there to support him and he gave us a gesture to kind of put us at ease even more. Again, that’s the kind of guy he was,” said Troy Parham with the SEPTA Transit Police UnionPolice haven’t yet said exactly what lead to the initial shootings of those two women but they were last listed in stable condition.
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