BREAKING: Police are looking into the possibility that the seemingly random shootings of a Philadelphia Parking Authority worker and a New York gas station attendant may be related.
in Philadelphia’s Frankford neighborhood. Both survived despite being shot in the head.
The PPD released surveillance video of both shootings. In both, a slender man with a blue hooded jacket, gray pants, black boots, black gloves and what appears to be a ski mask walks up to his victims and pulls the trigger with his left hand before running off. The PPD said he used a silver revolver.The shooting of McKenzie, the PPA officer, happened on the 4500 block of Frankford Avenue underneath the SEPTA Market-Frankford Line elevated tracks.
A friend and coworker told NBC10 McKenzie is well-known on his beat near Frankford Avenue and Orthodox Street. He was only a couple hours away from the end of his shift. The shooting of Alvi happened at a Sunoco gas station on Boston Road in the Bronx. Friends said he had been working to support his family in Pakistan.
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