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The 1985 MOVE bombing, locally known by its date, May 13, 1985, [2] was the aerial bombing and destruction of residential homes in the Cobbs Creek neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, by the Philadelphia Police Department during an armed standoff with MOVE, a black liberation organization.
On August 8, 1978, the Philadelphia police attempted to evict the MOVE organization from their home on Pearl Street. A standoff occurred, resulting in an eventual shootout, and the death of one police officer, James J. Ramp, as well as several injuries. Nine MOVE members were arrested and the organization was removed from their home on Pearl ...
[35] [36] The bullhorn was broken and inoperable for the three weeks prior to the police bombing of the row house. [36] The police obtained arrest warrants in 1985 charging four MOVE occupants with crimes including parole violations, contempt of court, illegal possession of firearms, and making terrorist threats. [6]
Philadelphia district attorney Larry Krasner named the 40-year-old local man as the shooter who brought chaos and fear to the neighbourhood during the Fourth of July
US marshals and Philadelphia police arrested a third suspect, Jermahd Carter, 19, on March 12 in Northeast Philadelphia, authorities announced that night. Carter’s bail was set at $4 million ...
The shooting unfolded at around 8.30pm Monday when police said the 40-year-old suspect, dressed in a bullet-proof vest and armed with an AR-15-style rifle and a handgun, left his home and began ...
Woodrow Wilson Goode Sr. (born August 19, 1938) is an American politician and former Mayor of Philadelphia and the first African American to hold that office. He served from 1984 to 1992, a period which included the controversial MOVE police action and house bombing in 1985. Goode was also a community activist, chair of the state Public Utility ...
Two 18-year-olds were arrested in the shooting of eight Philadelphia high school students at a bus stop last week, and authorities recovered a fully loaded, fully automatic weapon that matches ...