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A state agent shot and killed a man whose vehicle struck two troopers as law enforcement officers attempted to control an illegal early morning street race meeting on a Philadelphia highway, state police said Sunday.
State police say troopers were called to I-95 in the Penn’s Landing area shortly before 3:30 a.m. Sunday, where “numerous vehicles and pedestrians” were illegally blocking the highway.
Police said they tried to contact a vehicle and its driver, but the vehicle did not give up and two troopers were hit. Police said a trooper shot the driver, 18-year-old Anthony Allegrini Junior of Glen Mills, who was pronounced dead at the scene by firefighters. The troopers suffered what were called minor injuries.
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“It was reported that the vehicles were racing, doing ‘burnouts’ and ‘drifting’,” police said, as many people watched outside their vehicles. Troopers had been called in earlier in the evening to assist local police in several similar incidents, and there was a report of shots fired before state police arrived on the scene, police said.
A Pennsylvania state officer shot and killed an 18-year-old man after he hit two troopers at a street racing event.
Southbound interstate lanes were closed to traffic early Sunday as police investigated, but reopened later in the morning. State Police and the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office are investigating the case.
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FOP Lodge #5 president John McNesby told reporters that illegal street races were taking place Saturday night in Mayfair and Bustleton, as well as on I-95, calling it “another weekend of Philadelphia and state cops putting themselves in harm’s way to curb this criminal behavior.” McNesby said in one incident, an officer threw a rock through her windshield, shocking but not seriously injuring her.
Pennsylvania state agent shoots man who hit 2
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