Police ID Person Killed, Offender In BSL Center City Shooting

By CBS3 Staff, CBS Philadelphia

April 10, 2023

PHILADELPHIA -- Police have identified the person shot and killed at the Walnut-Locust Station on the Broad Street Line Saturday afternoon. They have also arrested 36-year-old Phillip Riddick in connection with this case who is now awaiting charges.

Twenty-one-year-old Joseph Lighty and Riddick got into an argument on the street level around the 200 block of South Broad Street Saturday afternoon.

The two entered the Broad Street Line platform from there and continued their argument, police say. Then, authorities say, Riddick's gun discharges, striking Lighty in the left leg.

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