Relative Of Officer Ambush Suspect: We're Just Trying To Get Through
YEADON, Pa. (CBS) -- Less than 24 hours after police say Edward Archer ambushed Philadelphia Police Officer Jesse Hartnett, a female relative who answered the door at Archer's mother's house in Yeadon said the family is still in shock.
"We're just trying to get through right now, and figure everything out," she said.
Earlier today, investigators in white suits pulled out two boxes worth of evidence from the home, one of three of his known addresses.
The other one was in Chester and the third at 61st and Pine Streets in Philadelphia near where the shooting occurred, in an apartment possibly belong to Archer's grandmother.
Sources say Archer was carrying a key to the apartment when he was caught and he may have been heading there to escape after the crime.
Neighbors say they often saw Archer over the summer at the Yeadon home, playing football in the yard with kids, sometimes dressed in Muslim garb.
Sometimes they said he dressed in Muslim garb and most took him to be a loner.
"I basically was shocked when they said somebody from Yeadon. I was a little surprised when they said it was him. He was mostly by himself. You couldn't really associate any particular characteristics other than he would come and go," neighbor Donald King told Eyewitness News.
Yeadon Mayor Rohan Hepkins says Archer was recently released from prison and was known to them for drugs and weapons charges.
"Well he has been on our radar screen and I believe he was scheduled to be in county court next week," Hepkins said.
Multiple agencies, including the ATF and FBI are assisting in the investigation.
