Man Fatally Shoots Fellow Canvasser for Anti-Gun Philadelphia Democrat
10th May 2023
Canvassers for a far-left Philadelphia mayoral candidate who has pledged to crackdown on gun violence in the city pulled guns on each other and one of them died, according to the police.
A 22-year-old man, who was canvassing Philadelphia’s East Germantown neighborhood on behalf of the progressive group OnePA, fatally shot a 46-year-old fellow canvasser on Monday, police said. Both men were knocking on doors in support of soft-on-crime Democratic mayoral candidate Helen Gym, among other left-wing candidates.
The victim and the killer “knew each other and began arguing after they ‘happened upon each other'” in the neighborhood, deputy police commissioner Frank Vanore told the Philadelphia Inquirer. Inspector Ernest Ransom said the argument led both men to draw guns on each other, with the younger canvasser shooting and killing the older man.
The shooter “said he was acting in self-defense,” Ransom told the Inquirer.