Police have identified the 17-year-old boy charged with shooting a good Samaritan who got off his bicycle to try to stop an armed robbery in Philadelphia.
(FOX)- Police say Mehdi Fraiji faces charges including attempted murder and aggravated assault in the shooting last week in the city’s exclusive Rittenhouse Square neighborhood.
Officials say the 39-year-old cyclist tried to intervene when he saw the holdup. People were dining at a sidewalk restaurant next to the park where the shooting occurred.
Police say Fraiji grabbed a gun from a co-conspirator and shot the cyclist in the chest, torso and shoulder. The victim was hospitalized in stable condition.
Fraiji is charged as an adult.
(Photo Credit; Penn Live)