Law enforcement watchdogs say Philadelphia Police could have done more to investigate a reported shooting days before the same gunman allegedly killed four people in Kingsessing.
Law enforcement officials and police watchdogs said Philadelphia Police could have done more to investigate the initial 911 call about the shooting that killed Joseph Wamah Jr. in Southwest Philadelphia — a full 44 hours before his body was discovered after police say the same gunman went on a rampage and killed four more people and wounded others in the same neighborhood.That’s what dispatchers sent officers to find shortly after 2 a.m. on July 2.
— and the revelation that Wamah had been killed nearly two days earlier has led some residents to question whether a proper response could have led police to Carriker before he allegedly killed again.said street direction errors are common in dispatch response. But in grid-based cities such as Philadelphia, north and south orientations of the same address can beDispatchers, responding officers, and police supervisors on duty that morning should have been aware of this possibility, he said.
Police have not released the audio of the initial 911 call, but in public police dispatch recordings of the call, responding officers sounded puzzled as they searched for a shot-up door on the wrong block.
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