The man suspected of a triple shooting in South Philadelphia last month has surrendered to police. Tahjir Williams, 24, handed himself over to the authorities yesterday, facing charges including three counts of aggravated assault, as FOX29 reports. The incident, which unfolded near South 9th Street close to the Fashion District mall on June 2, shortly before the stroke of midnight, resulted in three people being hospitalized with gunshot injuries.
Police arrived on scene that night to find a woman on the sidewalk, the bullets having riven through her pelvis and arm, as recounted by the officers. While Williams, whose actions were arrested at the conclusion of a manhunt, the shooting itself laid bare the veins of a city wrestling with gun violence's unceasing pulse. Two other victims—a 22-year-old man and another woman, 43—were reported in stable condition following the shooting, according to information provided by CBS News.
Further details disclosed by the police mentioned a third victim, also a 43-year-old woman, who was initially listed in critical but stable condition at Jefferson University Hospital. Meanwhile, reflecting the broader tapestry of violence that does not spare even the unintended, one of the victims was identified as a 53-year-old Canadian visitor, caught in the fray of a foreign nation's struggle with its own domestic demons of gun violence.
He is set to face an array of charges, "three counts of aggravated assault and other related offenses," as 6ABC has stated.
