Justice
A Philadelphia Police Officer Is Shot 'In the Name of Islam'
The shooter’s mother and Mayor Jim Kenney point to other possible motives as details continue to emerge.
A Philadelphia police officer who was shot and wounded late Thursday was targeted by his assailant in the name of Islam, police said Friday.
“He confessed to committing this act in the name of Islam,” Richard Ross, the city’s police commissioner, said at a news conference Friday.