by KYW's Al Novack
Wednesday's shooting of Officer Charles Cassidy (see related story) was the third Philadelphia police-involved shooting this week.
On Tuesday night in Center City, traffic Philadelphia police officer Mariano Santiago was wounded in the shoulder by a gunman who had minutes before shot three other people inside a car. That gunman, Jerome Whitaker, jumped into the Schuylkill River and drowned (see related story).
Police say he had been convicted to the 1994 murder of a six-year-old girl. He spent 11 years behind bars and was then parolled by the prison system.
Officer Sandra Van Hinkal, an 18-year department veteran, was wounded in the ankle Sunday morning when four armed men began shooting at each other and then at police outside KoKo Bongo, a hip hop club in University City. Police fatally shot one of the gunmen (see related story).
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