Philadelphia officer killed in ambush shooting ID'd, another wounded; suspect charged with murder
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PHILADELPHIA -- A suspect has been charged with murder after an ambush shooting in Philadelphia early Saturday morning left one police officer dead and another seriously injured.
Officer Shane Seiber, 40, a 10-year veteran of the force, died at the hospital after being shot three times in West Philadelphia.
Commissioner Kevin Bethel said Seiber's wife and other family members were able to be by his side before he passed.
Seiber leaves behind a 7-year-old son and a 3-year-old daughter, Bethel said.
"This will be a period of mourning for us, but we will stand tall as a department and get through this together," Bethel said.
The other officer who was shot was wounded 12 times. That officer, a 33-year-old with five children, is currently hospitalized in stable condition.
"He's not out of the woods yet, but he is stable," Bethel said.
District Attorney Larry Krasner identified the suspect on Saturday afternoon as 35-year-old Eric Lewis.
Lewis is facing a list of charges in connection with Seiber's killing, including Murder, Homicide of a Law Enforcement officer and multiple weapons offenses.
He is also being charged with attempted murder and other offenses for allegedly shooting the officer who was injured.
In addition, Krasner said Lewis is being charged with attempted murder for shooting at nine other officers who were not struck.
Court records show Lewis had prior arrests for gun, drugs, and assault charges between 2013 and 2020.
District Council 33 confirms Lewis was union member employed by the Philadelphia Water Department.
President Greg Boulware called what happened "heartbreaking," "deeply troubling," and said, "District Council 33 will continue to cooperate fully with the appropriate authorities as this matter proceeds."
Police were dispatched to the 100 block of North 52nd Street shortly after 12:20 a.m. for a report of a man with a gun on a porch.
The officers arrived around 30 minutes later and were shot soon after stepping foot onto the porch.
Officials say the suspect took off down an alleyway and shot multiple times at other officers, who were not hit.
There was a search and a neighborhood lockdown as police searched for the gunman, who was eventually taken into custody after falling out of a tree.
Officers recovered two handguns and a shotgun. Bethel said one of those handguns belonged to an officer who had been shot.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro ordered flags to be flown at half-staff in honor of Officer Seiber.
Today we lost one of Pennsylvania’s finest — Philadelphia Police Officer Shane Seiber, who was shot and killed in the line of duty. Lori and I are praying for Officer Seiber’s loved ones and the entire @PhillyPolice family as they grieve the loss of one of their brothers in…
— Governor Josh Shapiro (@GovernorShapiro) October 10, 2026
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Given his record, the Soros bought DA is no doubt planning on how to ensure the shooter is not convicted.
What race or ethnicity was the shooter, thats all that matters to the right these days.
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That is some first rate projection
True, had they been a white trump supporter they would have not said a word.
I was wondering how [✘] might attempt to spin this as somehow Democrats fault. Now I wonder no longer, but it is quite humorous[✘]
The DA in Philadelphia is currently under investigation for perjury and conspiracy over trying to get a convicted murderer out of prison and because of a history of lying to the courts w is not allowed by the state Supreme Court to undo convictions of murderers with out the approval of the state AG.
He is pro crime.
Exactly. You've perfectly summed up people who defend Krashner.
Not the type of racism that makes headlines...
Well, as we all know (for sure) murders come in all colors and ethnicities. No surprise there. It would be nice if the usual suspects would not try to divide us by color still I digress.
yes, it's a shame a racist killed a policeman and shot another because of their their color. It'd be nice if the entire country could denounce such blatant racism, but alas, we are not there.
I'm sorry, it seems you have gotten out ahead of the story. Therefore, you do not really know all the facts to yet be rendered and still you have offered a conclusion. As for the known facts, if true as reported (facts still being gathered), this suspect is a fool and should have the proverbial 'book' thrown as his MURDEROUS butt.
I have no patience for murders, no matter what color or ethnicity they are. I feel sure that many of us on NT and liberals in general feel the same.
Why you think it is necessary to accuse 'us' about what you can not possibly know about the liberal 'lot' on a regular basis smacks of demonization as a driving pretext behind discussion.
We, liberals, will not let you pigeon-hole us.
Btw, with that in mind, we do not know the party/ies affiliation of the officers or the suspect. . . so you could be demonizing (or failing to 'angelize') somebody for which you politically are connected to 'care.'
Who is trying to pigeon-hole you?
You see, I'm not a progressive, so that doesn't matter to me.
But maybe you should apply that to yourself.[✘]
Follow the discussion.
The problem with your 'take' on this (which I am horribly aware of) is this: You want to draw parallels between right and wrong based on party affiliation. Evil is evil no matter the doer/s! Therefore, when a conservative or a republican thinks to TRY and tell me that I am more biased towards blacks than whites I can remind them that certain groups of whites (and associated blacks and Other supporters) have terrible records of interfering in the liberties of blacks in this country when they do not agree with their worldview. It is not the same.
Maybe you should read "ALL" the comments before spouting off! The only comparison was to a Soros backed DA, you want to try and turn everything into a right vs left!
Maybe you ought to look up "pigeon-hole" and apply the meaning to this discussion.
And, for the record, I did read all the comments up to and touching my comment to which you replied (and beyond at this point and time) enough so, that I have forgotten them because they are 'aging out' on the boards as new discussions are 'populating.'
Like shooting a cop because they are white? What groups have a record of doing that, since you want to make this a "let's blame groups" thing.
Just admit that if a MAGA aligned person shot a cop because he was black you would not be posting in response "murderers come in all colors and ethnicities" and anyone talking about it is trying to divide people by color.
Do not play games. Crazy, 'confused,' and dangerous people shoot policemen and officials and have nothing to do with ('us') the general population at large. Therefore, it is improper for you to repeatedly ask me to explain to you crazy, 'confused,' and dangerous people since I am not one of them! As I have not ever shot anybody. . . nor do I plan on doing so (if left to my own wits and devices.)
Next: If a MAGA supporter shot a black cop. . . like you I would question the motive and depending on the outcome of that make a determination (an opinion) like everybody else does as to believability. That is, I would not trust the word of said shooter of the (black) officer simply because he is MAGA. I have no faith in MAGA (as you have surely read by now in my comments).
Too much partisan and tribalism is on display in the party that apparently gets its 'oxygen' from a man who thinks lions and tigers eating people is "good" for animals. /s
And yes, that last sentence is a dig at Trump who is MAGA's 'masthead.'
This is a bad area that I have worked in years ago. In fact, we had to take cover as there was a live shooter only a 100 yards away or so from the home we were rehabilitating after a fire loss.
This neighborhood was predominately black, but in the now infamous Kensington Alleghany area(Famous for all the zombie Heroin heads floating around) had just as many dangerous experiences and this was predominately a white neighborhood back then.
It is not the color of people that determines the violence level, way so more often it is the economically disadvantaged that determine how violent a Philly neighborhood was. At least these werre my experiences living most of my life in the area. Now, I live in Ohio and to me, it's like living in Mayberry, and i'm on ACID, or at least, they think I am! I like it here and glad I took the trip.
I won't try to explain such people that take up arms to do what amounts to evil. I will just say they make it hard for the rest of us, even when it comes to attempting to answer for their, emphasis on their actions. I am trying, however, to get across to Sean that people that are hateful of others based on skin color are fools, and as fools, well they are difficult to 'reach' (while so). And thus, they act out. . .leaving destruction in their path and others to futilely address where and what their individual 'brokenness' has wrought to society.
It is not all of us. And so, anecdotal stories and images of evil and its 'doers' can not represent the greatness in the masses of any one race in this country. This point is not mentioned so much in discussion as it is (hopefully) understood to be! That is, when I speak about whites that have committed atrocities in our nation's past and present. . . I never mean all of whites-past or present, because there are whites that have supported black Americans from this countries inception. Indeed, many whites have supported and aided blacks in our country since before our collective national independence, and many mor do so even here on these message boards!
Evil is evil. We all experience it in reality or through the knowledge of others that encounter it. And yes, like every other aspect of humanity, officers of the law come from the 'stack' that is us-the same 'pool' of humanity and we are all mixed up together (blended even), until our intentions make clear what we 'become.'
Color is skin. Skin color. It is all it is. It is evil (doers) that make skin a social marker and treat and abuse people for genetics they can not in any way have control over.
Hope in you did not think, even though my stereo is blaring, whilst i stereo type cause stereotypical responses was not a type of reaction, cause all I was saying, yes bad black neighborhoods, bad white neighborhoods, worked in many a. Rarely did I have difficulty, and the odds were against that, but crazy, tends to recognize crazy, and it's a shame more people can't see the blatatnt evil the GOP has invoked claiming not woked, cause awaken is my EZ pass and bake oven with the 60 watt the fck does that have to do with stero typing .... don't mind me, a little smokey in my man cave a rockin. My aimless point was I agree, eveil does evil, it is not owned by any pigment <%> peoples, asz ive encountered various dangerous places, and it was sorta an adrenaline high sometimes, and I used to really enjoy those. Definitely enjoyed them far too much! From quading in the woods where i would leave Friday night and not return till Monday morning choosing to live in the woods for the weekend, most every. Done Hot Air Ballooning, parachuting, challenging rock climbing on cliffs without anty gear, scuba diving, Canoing when others were being rescued by helicopters, me and one of about my best buds, deceased a few years ago, butv boy did we go when our local creek was at death ride flood status, jumpin on and into moving freight train cars, challenging freight trains as had to beat them to a safe out let where when two trains, there was not room for the quad, and when two coming from different directions, no deflections gonna save you from the inertia that the weight and velocity of a loaded freight traned of thought less of's cause i was a more on, and did swim across lake in 34 degree weather, and so many other risks I and many of my fallen friends, should have probably, not taken, but we did, and i regret not. Dangerous places are where I spent most of my life, as climbing on roofs since I was 11. Scaffolding three stories up, articulating boom lifts, scissor platform lifts, get us higher, and enjoyed being "higher"
why shouldn't he? you and all your compadres here do it all the time
I can see why you have had "enough" and you have "forgotten" since the conversation was about Krasner, until people elected to make it about politics and race.
Well....that may be true but, this time it was about the DA, unless of course you are a big fan of Krasner.
Go on argue for the sake of arguing. . . I'll sit with my popcorn and watch.
No this time, it was about a member of NT posting an article trying to imply that liberals are out of touch with law enforcement values all because one dumb ass black man shot an officer of the law. Well, for your information, liberals support officers too and want them to serve 'us' with honor in a like manner as conservatives.
Do not enter into a discussion I am having with a member of NT and try to turn it to something you can harp on.
As I have clearly stated, this man that shot the officer is wrong to have done so. . . and that written: The story (at least at the time of this article) is still evolving. George Soras and liberals have nothing to do with a suspect 'somewhere' in America shooting and firing on police! Backing a politician does not lead to such a determination without fact/s!
We have 'told' conservatives over and over, time and time again, there are too many guns in the hands of people in our country, and conservatives have withstood all efforts at reduction. So, when a 'nut' cracks and shoots up a shoot, a store, people in parks, or event platforms. . . do not blame liberals for the 'undertaking.' Y'all wanted gun 'freedom' to the ng degree. . . well, enjoy what having so many guns in our country wrought.
Point out the "implication" in the article you are referring to.
The article makes no reference to liberals, there was no mention of liberals until you brought it up.
You can continue arguing. . . I promise to read.
There is nothing to argue about, you are just making things up about any implication.
"Goose" - whatever. At the pace of response. . .one could wonder why bother. Commenting 101 is timing (efficiency).