Police are still searching for the shooting suspects.
A photo of slain Philadelphia Police Officer Richard Mendez is inset against an aerial image made from video provided by WPVI-TV that shows police cars and officers around a Philadelphia International Airport parking garage, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2023. Mendez, 50, died at a hospital after he and Officer Raul Ortiz, 60, were shot after confronting several people breaking into a vehicle in the airport garage about 11 p.m.
Ortiz, a 20-year veteran of the force, was shot in the arm when he and Officer Richard Mendez confronted several people breaking into a vehicle in a parking garage at Philadelphia International Airport at about 11 p.m. Thursday. Fifty-year-old Mendez, who had been on the force for more than two decades, was shot multiple times and was pronounced dead at a hospital.
It wasn’t clear if any other suspects were wounded in the shooting, authorities said, or how many of them had fired weapons. Interim Police Commissioner John Stanford noted that the shooting came only a week after three officers were shot and wounded while responding to a call and called the new shooting “a numb, numb moment for us.”
A reward totaling $148,500 was offered for information leading to an arrest as the $30,000 posted by two local police unions was supplemented by money from other police groups, businesses and Pennsylvania and New Jersey residents. That’s in addition to $20,000 offered by the city for information that leads to an arrest and conviction.
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