Update: Police said late Monday night that the man in the photographs has been taken into custody. Charges have yet to be filed.
Detectives released images Monday of a man wanted in connection with an “execution-style” shooting that left two people dead last week near a Fairmount Park mansion.
Officers were called just before 11 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 29, to the 3800 block of Mount Pleasant Drive in East Fairmount Park, where they discovered a man and a woman unresponsive on the side of the road, police said.
Thurston Cooper, 49, who lived in the Ogontz neighborhood, and Krystina Chambers, 38, of Lawncrest, were both shot in the head, and they died at the scene, according to authorities.
The double homicide occurred near Mount Pleasant, a mansion dating to the 1760s that was once the home of Benedict Arnold. The historic property is currently closed to the public.
On Monday, the PPD sent out photos of a suspect and described him as a stocky Black man who was wearing a black Dallas Cowboys hat at the time of the killings.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the department’s Homicide Unit at 215-686-3334/3335; call or text 215-686-8477; or go to www.phillypolice.com/forms/submit-a-tip. A $40,000 reward is being offered for tips that lead to an arrest and conviction in the case.
