How authorities closed in on the Septa shooting suspects
The Hyundai identified in the shooting had been reported stolen the Saturday before. A witness reported seeing two people commit the theft, breaking the window of the Hyundai and leaving a Kia Sportage they'd arrived in parked and running.
The Kia, police later learned, had also been reported stolen late February from the 7800 block of Horrocks Street.
Police recovered the Hyundai in an alleyway between the 400 blocks of Fern Street and Roselyn Street at about 10:30 p.m.
Police returned to the 400 block of Fern Street to collect footage. One video showed the car arriving at the alleyway at 3:11 p.m. Wednesday and four men dressed in identical black clothing were identified as suspects in the shooting. The suspects then entered a home on the block that police were later able to identify. Jamaal Tucker was identified as a suspect.
Authorities obtained cell tower data to crosscheck the presence of cellular devices in the vicinity of key events, including the theft of the Kia Sportage, the theft of the Hyundai Sonata, the Five Points shooting, and the alleyway where the Sonata was recovered.
The activity of these devices was consistent with the activities of the offenders as known to the investigation at the time.” One of the cell phones identified in the process was linked to a woman school district records had once listed as the guardian of Ahnile Buggs.
Investigators executed an early-morning search warrant at the home on the 400 block of Fern Street, where they found a Polymer 80 Jig, used to assemble firearm kits of the same brand, as well as mail addressed to Jamaal Tucker, Jr. Police also searched Tucker’s most-recent address, where they recovered 30 rounds of .45 caliber ammunition.
Tucker turned himself in later that night.
Authorities searched Buggs’ home where they recovered a .40-caliber Glock 22 pistol with an extended magazine, laser pointer, and a “switch,” a small device that attaches to a semiautomatic gun and makes it capable of fully automatic fire.
Deputy Police Commissioner Frank Vanore said a preliminary ballistics examination indicated that the gun matched the shell casings recovered at the scene of Wednesday’s shooting.
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