PHILADELPHIA — An 18-year-old man was arrested Sunday for the fatal shooting of a Temple University police officer in north Philadelphia, authorities said.
Miles Pfeffer, 18, of Buckingham Township, Pennsylvania, is facing charges including murder, murder of a law enforcement officer, robbery, carjacking and related offenses in the shooting on Saturday night that killed Officer Christopher Fitzgerald, according to the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office.
Pfeffer is alleged to have committed a carjacking a short time after, near the location of the officer's murder, authorities said. "We join law enforcement and people across the region in expressing our heartbreak and outrage over this horrific crime," Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said in a statement."Officer Fitzgerald's life was ripped from him and his loved ones violently and senselessly.
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