Policemen from across Philadelphia are conducting a citywide manhunt for the gunman who shot a Philadelphia Police officer at a Dunkin Donuts on the 6600 block of N. Broad Street this morning.
Charles Cassidy, 54, was shot when he walked into a robbery-in-progress at the Dunkin Donuts shortly after 10 a.m. Cassidy was critically injured in the shooting and is being treated at Albert Einstein Medical Center. He came out of surgery this afternoon and doctors were trying to reduce swelling in his brain.
The suspect is described as a 5-foot-11 to 6-feet tall, heavyset black male. He was wearing a black hooded sweatshirt, tan khaki pants and tan boots, and had a spider web tattoo on his left hand.
Several different sections of Philadelphia Police have been combing the city for the suspect, and 54 schools and education centers in North and Northwest Philadelphia went into lockdown today.
The incident marks the third shooting of a police officer this week. One officer was wounded in a gun battle outside the Koko Bongo nightclub early Sunday morning at 38th and Chestnut streets.
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