Suspect in Philadelphia police standoff taken into custody - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

Police officers and vehicles are seen after a suspect in an active shooter situation, where Philadelphia police officers were shot during a drug raid on a home, surrendered

SWAT teams were still securing the home after midnight, said police spokesman Eric Gripp, but few details were immediately available about how the suspected gunman, identified by media as Maurice Hill, 36, was taken into custody. A SWAT team rescued two police officers and three civilians who were trapped in the house with the suspect, police said on Wednesday.

All six wounded officers were released from hospital, with one officer surviving a bullet graze to the head and another after a bullet hit body armour on his back. The Philadelphia Inquirer, citing police sources, identified the suspected gunman as Hill, 36, a Philadelphia man with a history of gun, drugs and assault convictions.

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