Two more arrests have been made in connection with a shooting last week that left one Philadelphia police officer dead and another wounded, sources tell Action News.
The names of those arrested have not been released.One arrest has already been made in this investigation. Yobranny Martinez Fernandez, 18, of Camden County, New Jersey, was arrested before dawn Monday in Cherry Hill.
The shooting happened in a parking garage at Philadelphia International Airport around 11 p.m. Thursday. Officer Richard Mendez and Officer Raul Ortiz had just arrived for work when they heard breaking glass and saw several people breaking into a car in the parking lot.Mendez, 50, who had been on the force for more than two decades, was shot four times and pronounced dead at a hospital.
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