by KYW's Mark Abrams

Philadelphia Police are stunned that a burglar would be so bold as to rip off a donation jar from the very Dunkin Donuts where police officer Chuck Cassidy was shot while responding to a robbery in progress.

Police say at about 3:30am Monday, a man crawled through the drive-up window of the store at 66th and Broad St. in West Oak Lane, took the donation jar for the Cassidy family off the counter, then went back out the window.

Police quickly responded to the alarm, but the man got away. They believe the jar contained about $30. The break-in was captured on store security video.

Police describe the suspect as a black man in his 30s, wearing a knit cap and some kind of work jacket. Keith, of East Oak Lane, stopped for coffee here this morning and couldn’t believe it:

“That’s crazy, that’s bizarre, like, no sympathy no more in this world. Yeah, that’s unimaginable.” 

This was actually the second rip-off of a Cassidy donation jar. Police say that early Sunday morning, a white man in his 20s, who had a female companion, went into the Wawa store at Tyson and Brous in the Northeast and grabbed a donation jar off the counter.

Employees there were stunned because that jar had a cord attached to it to prevent such a theft.

Officer Cassidy was gunned down October 31st outside the Dunkin' Donuts and died the next day of his injuries (see related story).

Twenty-one year-old John Lewis, who was captured days later in Florida (see related story), is charged with Cassidy's murder and a handful of armed robberies.