Woman drives SUV through crowd, fan stabbed, and person grazed by bullets during Eagles NFC championship celebrations, police say

A Narberth woman drove a Mercedes SUV through a crowd of celebrating Eagles fans after the team’s NFC championship victory Sunday night, injuring eight people in one of several dangerous incidents that came amid the revelry, police said.

Just after 9:30 p.m., police said, Rebekah DeShields, 26, hit several pedestrians at North Broad and Spring Garden Streets, as fans hailed the Eagles’ defeat of the Washington Commanders to clinch another Super Bowl berth. Eight people sustained injuries including bone fractures, police said.

DeShields, who was pulled over shortly afterward on Ridge Avenue, faces multiple counts of aggravated assault, assault by vehicle, and related crimes, said Police Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore.

With the Eagles headed to their second Super Bowl in three years, crowds of fans swarmed across the city, many marching up Broad Street, blasting music, waving flags, and — as part of tradition — climbing light poles. And in some cases, the crowd’s enthusiasm took a dangerous turn.

A man was stabbed during an argument after the Eagles outside Lincoln Financial Field on the 3600 block of South 11th Street near Xfinity Live!. Shortly before 8 p.m. Sunday, a 25-year-old man whom police did not identify, got into an argument with a 34-year-old man, who stabbed him in his right leg.

The victim was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and was placed in stable condition, police said. The suspect, later identified by police as Tramayne Davis-Blockson, was arrested at the scene and charged with aggravated assault and related crimes, police said.

Earlier Sunday, at 6:20 p.m., an officer working the NFC championship detail at 700 Pattison Ave. was attacked by 32-year-old Jose Moya, of Soquel, Calif. Moya was arrested and charged with aggravated assault and related crimes.

Less than two hours earlier, at 4:40 p.m., another officer also working the football championship detail at 1100 Pattison Ave. was assaulted during a disturbance, police said. The assailant, Eugene Dennis, 44, of Media, was also charged with aggravated assault and related crimes, police said.

The incident was among at least four reports of assaults on police officers, authorities said.

The violence and vandalism reverberated throughout the city, even as celebrations wound down.

Officers found a 20-year-old man with a gunshot wound at 1300 Chestnut St. shortly before 9:30 p.m., police said. He was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and placed in stable condition, police said. No arrests have been made in connection with the incident, they said.

Minutes earlier at 9:12 p.m., police responded to the 1800 block of Sansom Street for reports of gunfire and found five shell casings and traces of blood, but no victims were found, police said.

As officers tried to disperse a large crowd at 100 South Broad St., the crowd became verbally hostile and an officer was hit in the head by a full water bottle, police said. No arrests were made.

At 11:21 p.m., a 39-year-old man arrived at Albert Einstein Medical Center suffering from two bullet graze wounds to his chest and stomach, police said. The man told police he was injured while driving south on Broad Street, near Spring Garden Street, when he heard gunshots from a nearby crowd.

And around 4:10 a.m. Monday, police responded to a report of vandalism at the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office, where the glass front door was shattered and two large windows were cracked. Police continue to investigate.

Police are also investigating a video circulating on social media of a man firing his gun multiple times into the air in the middle of a crowd gathered at Frankford and Cottman Avenues.

Police said they issued 31 citations for disorderly conduct or failure to disperse to 30 adults and one juvenile across the city as they tried to manage the large crowds that traveled after the Eagles’ victory on Sunday night.