Tuesday, May 6, 2008

Suspect Charged in Officer's Slaying

One suspect was charged and a second one was being sought Sunday in the killing of a police officer who was shot with an assault rifle while investigating a report of bank robbery in Philadephia. Levon Warner, age 38, was charged with murder, robbery, conspiracy and related offenses. A second man, Eric Floyd, age 33, is believed to have escaped from a halfway house in Berks County. He is being sought on a homicide charge. A third man, Howard Cain, age 33 was killed by police. The dead officer was a 12 year veteran who would have turned 40 today. He was responding to a report of a robbery of a bank inside a grocery store.

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