Police and emergency medical personnel are responding to an incident at a Center City high-rise after an eyewitness told PhillyVoice an individual jumped from the building.
Related article: Police say jump was an apparent suicide.
According to the eyewitness, who asked not to be identified, a person jumped from a balcony at the 28-floor Embassy Suites Hotel, located at 1776 Benjamin Franklin Parkway. The eyewitness said the young man jumped a few floors from the top of the hotel.
An ambulance is on the scene.
According to a spokesperson reached by phone at the Embassy Suites Hotel, "there was a crisis, it's now under control, and Hilton will be putting out a statement."
Man, woman dead in murder-suicide in suburban Philadelphia
Posted: May 02, 2015 10:00 PM
Updated: May 02, 2015 10:00 PM
MONTGOMERYVILLE, Pa. (AP) - Authorities say a man shot and killed a woman before turning the weapon on himself in the suburban Philadelphia town house they shared.
Police in Montgomery County said the bodies of 56-year-old Leroy Wilson and 36-year-old Brienne Francisco were found Thursday evening in a Montgomery Township home.
More than a dozen residents were initially evacuated to the parking lot of a nearby shopping center as officers arrived to investigate the gunfire.
District Attorney Kevin Steele said the Philadelphia medical examiner's office ruled Francisco's death a homicide, while the Montgomery County coroner's office ruled Wilson's death a suicide.
Investigators have not specified the relationship between the two or commented on a possible motive for the shootings.
