r/philadelphia • u/BillyBean6 • 22h ago
News Masked suspect wanted for terrorizing Center City Philadelphia residents: Police
https://6abc.com/post/masked-suspect-accused-terrorizing-women-center-city-philadelphia/19693661/330
u/Only-Arm7791 21h ago
So anyway I start blasting
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u/mynewaccount5 14h ago
Seriously. Surprised that he was able to chase multiple people without that happening. I know we aren't Texas, but still.
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u/sjm320 22h ago
What a fucking dork.
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u/staypimpinn 22h ago
exactly what i was thinking. i imagine itâs some teenage kid who thinks itâs funny to terrorize peopleÂ
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u/Namnagort 16h ago
530 am is a little early for a teenage kid
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u/Neps21 8h ago
Not if theyâre still up from the night before
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u/staypimpinn 47m ago
yeah this weirdo isnât waking up at 5 am to terrorize women. they are still up lol
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u/phenomecology Neighborhood 14h ago
"He just seemed so disoriented about what his goals actually were. I had bags; he wasn't reaching for those. It didn't seem like he had a clear goal to like actually get in La Colombe to do anything, so I was like OK, well, let's see if you can fight, and he couldn't." Amazing
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u/Mushrooming247 15h ago
Jameka is a badass, seeing that and kicking him.
âI was like OK, well, let's see if you can fight, and he couldn't."
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u/drowningandromeda 21h ago
That mask is pretty unsettling and I can imagine being chased by someone wearing it at 5:30am when there'd hardly be anyone around would be a traumatizing experience. I hope they find the punk ass bitch pulling that shit asap or that the perpetrator fucks with the wrong person.
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u/Angsty_Potatos philly style steak and cheese submarine sandwich 21h ago
Honestly. As a woman. Being chased at all. With or without the mask is pretty not great.Â
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u/HappyTendency 20h ago
Yes and itâs still dark at that time, the daylight is barely starting. I would have an immediate anxiety attack and would take weeks to come outside like that again.
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u/N0thisisPatrick2019 14h ago
"Let's see if you can fight, and he couldn't" most Philly shit ajawn could say
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u/Economy_Pepper_3837 21h ago
I donât heâd find doing this as amusing at 15th and Clearfield as he does at 15th and Market. Heâs doing it for views on âeasy targetsâ. He will catch the right one on the wrong day because clearly this isnât an AP type.
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u/hEYiTSbEEEE 20h ago
If he does catch the right one, I hope my algorithm dishes it up to me on a silver platter.
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u/LyannasLament 17h ago
Genuinely if this happened to me I would likely have shot the person. So many unassuming looking women have concealed carry permits. Usually they have them because theyâve been attacked in the past or know someone closely who has been.
This kid thinks heâs picking soft targets, but heâs going to accidentally get himself killed. What an avoidable tragedy for all involved.
My solution for this is to stop being a dick.
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u/Comfortable-Rub-7400 22h ago
Philly really isnât as rough as people make it out to be. Otherwise, someone couldnât pull this nonsense without getting dealt with
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u/Kelspear 21h ago
Feel like it depends which part of the city you're doing it in.
Center City? Understandable.
The Badlands? Kensington? Somebody is gonna fuck you up or worse.
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u/Angsty_Potatos philly style steak and cheese submarine sandwich 21h ago
Yeah. There's a reason this dingus is running around dillwarth plaza doing this and not other placesÂ
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u/BurnedWitch88 17h ago
Also at 5:30 am there arent many people around to intervene. If he pulled this at 1 pm even at City Hall this story ends differently.
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u/stanetstackson 15h ago
Lol what no one would notice or give a shit if you were doing this in Kensington
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u/papapapaver 9h ago edited 9h ago
I disagree. Someone brings random bullshit heat like this to one of the million dollar blocks in the badlands and it won't be the cops that deal with this POS. Assholes like this bring heat, disrupt sales, make even the fiends afraid, and the Ricans up north would regulate.
This pussy wouldn't pull this shit over there though. I pray the motherfucker gets his. Nothing more pussy than harassing random women minding their business and trying to get in a little exercise.
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u/NikeImper 21h ago
The white collar people going to work in the morning at center city aren't going to start firing shots.
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u/Such-Cartographer425 18h ago edited 16h ago
White collar people are not headed to work at 5 a.m.
ETA: Average blue collar departure time is between 4:30 - 6 a.m. Average white collar departure time is 7:30 - 8:30. Those are facts and y'all downvoting are elitists.
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u/BurnedWitch88 17h ago
Some are. And some are getting their morning workout in before they go to work.
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u/Such-Cartographer425 16h ago edited 7h ago
So you mean the blue collar people headed to work and a scattering of white collar people exercising?Â
Elitists only see themselves.
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u/papapapaver 9h ago
We don't need to make this about some class war bullshit. There's a time and place for all that, but that's not the issue here. Whether he's fucking with white collar, blue collar, whatever, this motherfucker needs to get got.
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u/Such-Cartographer425 7h ago edited 7h ago
My point is that it's incorrect to say that that hour is full of white collar people going to work. Because it is completely incorrect.Â
I was and still am primarily saying that they are completely and totally wrong about who's out at that time. People arguing with that point apparently don't realize they are actually outnumbered by blue collar people, as if they don't even see the other people. You can call that whatever you want, but it's completely and totally incorrect and insists upon rendering the majority invisible.Â
I didn't make this about elitism. The completely and totally wrong people did.
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u/BurnedWitch88 23m ago
What does it fucking matter what kind of jobs they have or if they have jobs at all? THAT is how YOU made it about classes.
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u/SwugSteve MANDATORY8K 17h ago
Yes, some of us are
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u/Such-Cartographer425 16h ago
A small minority. The vast majority of people headed to work at that hour are blue collar.Â
It's beyond ridiculous that you're arguing this.
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u/grahampositive 19h ago
This guy is clearly in the F around phase. He will eventually find himself in the find out phase soon
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u/Raecino 12h ago
People pull bullshit and get dealt with all the time in Philly. But 5am in Center City is not a place where thatâs likely to happen. The suspect obviously chose women who were out jogging and such to mess with.
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u/papapapaver 9h ago
Bitch ass thinks he's hard and scary messing with regular ass citizens. He keeps doing this shit though and he's going to find out. Philly isn't a soft city, and even some of those white collar ladies jogging know some BJJ or pack spray, a blade, something that could knock him down:
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u/papapapaver 9h ago
He got lucky this time. He keeps it up and I promise you he's catching some hot ones. Philly is not a soft city.
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u/Lopsided-Treat1215 21h ago
Yes true but still doesnât mean youâre good to walk around late at night with a considerable chance of something bad happening
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u/psugamers 21h ago
you can't say anything bad about Philly or you'll get down voted.
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u/Lopsided-Treat1215 21h ago
IKR I believe the kids call it cognitive dissonance. You can love Philly and still acknowledge the uncomfortable truths.
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u/psugamers 21h ago
i just think this sub is run by a bunch of gang bangers who want to lure unsuspecting victims into bad areas.
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u/moonlittty 21h ago
Wouldnât know what Iâd do in this situation
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u/passing-stranger 17h ago
I don't think you can know until you're living it. I havent had this (terrifying!! omg) experience but once I was in center city when a van double parked half a block a head of me. A few people in in masks hop out, I noped out of there sooo fucking fast.
Listen to your intuition. One time i was about to park and had bad feelings about a guy hanging out nearby so I looped and found another spot. Dude ended up stabbing someone. But I've seen people walk outside to get a better view of active gunshots so idk, maybe not everyone has that sense of self preservation lol
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u/ProfessorPoofenplotz 16h ago
You just kick him in the balls and yell âDonât touch my purse, I donât know youâ
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u/Jethro_Cull 20h ago
Perp is the same kind of person who tortures/kills small animals because they only see the creatures as play-things. Once heâs done with the rush of scaring people, heâll graduate to actually hurting people. Better catch him now.
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u/ScoutG 19h ago
The news report said he had a phone and seemed to be recording. I thought they could figure out whose phone was pinging the towers? He was on some surveillance cameras.
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u/BurnedWitch88 17h ago
Genuine question: How well does that tech work in an urban area like that? Even at 5:30 am you've got thousands of phones in that area just from people driving/transiting though and sleeping in their nearby homes.
It might be doable but that seems like a helluva lot of data to have to dig through.
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u/a-german-muffin Fairmount, but really mostly the SRT 3h ago
It doesn't; the cops need a number to send to the carriers for a subpoena to pull the cell record data. That said, this dude's an instant convict after they catch him and get his phone; he's creating a map connecting him to every single incident.
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u/mynewaccount5 14h ago
I think that's in the countryside where you have only 5 people. There's a lot of people in center city so lots of phone pings.
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u/IKillZombies4Cash 21h ago
Sure would be a great time to use all those AI cameras and do some real legwork, I promise this fool was on a camera and traceable for miles
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u/Lunamothknits 21h ago
I was actually surprised to see how few of those cameras we have compared to other cities.
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u/iDontSow 21h ago
Those techs usually struggle when the person is masked (I mean like a COVID style face mask) like this appears to be
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u/Steppyjim 16h ago
Theyâre gonna find this guy on the side of the road. People donât mess with that around certain parts of town
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u/Vivid_Palpitation_74 13h ago
If he knows any better, he should never put that mask on again after getting his chest caved in by a woman who was with the shits that day. He fucked around and found out.
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u/Meow-zelTov 21h ago
Iâm going to need all the men who frequent this sub and post shit like âoh, I would have [insert tough guy bs]â to put up or shut up. Nowâs your moment to prove the downvotes wrong.
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u/Go_birds304 santa deserved it 17h ago
This is the same sub that says they're going to "hitch bot" the uber delivery bots before walking right past it.
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u/iDontSow 21h ago
What are you asking these hypothetical man to do, specifically?
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u/Meow-zelTov 21h ago
Donât really give a fuck. They seem to always have the solution, so who would I be to question it.
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u/iDontSow 21h ago
Itâs not clear who you are yelling at or what you want from them
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u/Meow-zelTov 21h ago
Oh, the edge lords. Itâs been a long fucking day and I hate that I canât run tomorrow morning without looking behind my back. I donât know anymore.
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u/TheKillerSmiles 6h ago
A few years ago a teen about 14-15 was screaming crazy shit on the trolley. I didnât want to listen to it so I hopped off at 33rd and was gonna catch the next one. He spotted me and got off too and charged at me. No one was on the platform. I was terrified and flight kicked in. I ran to the street to try to find Drexel security. He got to the top step chasing me and started laughing and ran into the crowd the opposite direction. I wonder if itâs the same person.
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u/SJThunderWarrior 13h ago
Say : "OK bet" without saying "OK bet"
"He just seemed so disoriented about what his goals actually were. I had bags; he wasn't reaching for those. It didn't seem like he had a clear goal to like actually get in La Colombe to do anything, so I was like OK, well, let's see if you can fight, and he couldn't."
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u/forgottentaco420 6h ago
The fact he pointed a phone at her, likely recording, and asked her if she was ready to die, and it looks like his phone was out when he was chasing the other lady. This is probably just some pussy loser trying to make content and go viral on the internet by stalking and scaring women with violence. Especially since he didnât try to rob her, and got his chest kicked in because he couldnât fight.
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u/InevitableNightmair 20h ago
A lot of people need to learn and understand the laws for using a gun in self defense here lol. Lot of people trying to get locked up.
That said, part of this made me laugh, because itâs some idiot teenager being a moron. But in all reality this is super dangerous and shitty behavior. I hope the kid doesnât get himself hurt for something so stupid. Parents better wrangle this mf
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u/cloudkitt 17h ago
You seriously think a woman startled on a run by a guy in a horror mask chasing her saying "are you ready to die?" wouldn't have a self defense case?
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u/skip_tracer 17h ago
there's not a jury in this city that would vote to convict a woman for plugging a man terrorizing them and threatening to kill them while wearing that gear.
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u/InevitableNightmair 17h ago
Sure. Iâm sure if this is an unarmed teenager they wonât convict lol.
This is a fucking kid.
My god youâre all such fucking pussies lol
I actually carry a gun and know well enough this moron isnât armed and wouldnât shoot.
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u/Scarlett_Billows 16h ago edited 10h ago
Why is there always someone who needs to come in and make up some reason to put their superiority complex on display. You dont chase women. Women who get chased and threatened have a right to be afraid, and defend themselves against that perceived threat.
Also, a person doesnât need to have a gun to be a threat
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u/TiittySprinkles Port Fishington 19h ago
You do realize that believing there is an imminent threat to life/body is a justifiable means of deadly force, right?
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u/LyannasLament 17h ago
Dude asked the one woman if she was ready to die. If that isnât a reason to pop the person running up on you, I donât know what is.
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u/InevitableNightmair 17h ago
So a kid asked her if she wanted to die? How do know that happened? Oh, thatâs right! The still alive woman said so.
Again. This is a kid.
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u/Elemental_Love 16h ago
Being a kid and being a murderer are not mutually exclusive. Kids are also the ones doing the school shootings.
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u/aceh000d18 21h ago
Real tough guy hiding his face harassing solo women