A woman shot and killed a man that police say she knew after he broke into her Crescentville apartment on Wednesday.
The woman shot the man in her second-floor apartment on the 4600 block of Castor Avenue around 5 a.m., Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small told reporters on the scene. Neither people have been identified.
First responders found a masked man, 29, in the bedroom, where he was unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the head. The man was pronounced dead at the scene around 5:30 a.m., Small said.
When first responders removed the man’s mask to render medical aid, the woman, who police believe to be in her 20s, said she recognized the man and knew him.
The woman is cooperating with investigators, who said they believe the man was shot after breaking into the woman’s apartment.
“She heard someone breaking windows to the apartment, and then she encountered this male inside of the property,” Small said. “He was wearing a mask covering his face, and she fired one or two shots, striking this male in the head.”