PHILADELPHIA, PA – An arrest has been made in the murer of a Temple University police officer Saturday night.
District Attorney Larry Krasner announced Sunday that the DA’s Office Homicide/Non-Fatal Shootings Unit will charge Miles Pfeffer, 18, for killing Temple University Police officer on Saturday night.
As part of the investigation into the murder of the fallen officer, the Philadelphia Police arrested Pfeffer shortly after he was captured by the U.S. Marshals and Bucks County law enforcement earlier this morning.
As with all defendants charged with Murder, Miles Pfeffer is ineligible for bail, as he has been charged with Murder, Murder of a Law Enforcement Officer, Robbery, and Carjacking.
During the investigation of an incident near Temple University’s campus on Saturday night, Officer Christopher Fitzgerald encountered Pfeffer.
Pfeffer is accused of shooting Officer Fitzgerald in the head. As Officer Fitzgerald lay on the ground and fatally injured, Pfeffer is alleged to have attempted to rob him of his gun and to have searched through his pockets.
Shortly after the officer’s murder, Pfeffer allegedly committed a carjacking nearby.
“We join law enforcement and people across the region in expressing our heartbreak and outrage over this horrific crime. Officer Fitzgerald’s life was ripped from him and his loved ones violently and senselessly. As the DA’s Homicide Unit begins the work of holding Miles Pfeffer accountable for his alleged crimes, our Victims Services team will also be extending loving support to Officer Fitzgerald’s family and loved ones,” DA Krasner said. “Temple University Police, the U.S. Marshals, the PPD and their colleagues in Bucks County are all to be commended for bringing this defendant into custody so quickly. Once again, I call on state and federal lawmakers to apply that same urgency toward addressing the obscene supply and availability of firearms in our communities, which robs people of their lives, futures, and freedoms in a way that no other wealthy peacetime nation tolerates. Students, staff, and public safety officers from Pennsylvania to Michigan to California deserve to live freely – absent the danger and trauma that daily gun violence imposes on every American.”