Man police say injured 3 nurses at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in hit-and-run assault surrenders
Police said Jaadir Goodwyn hit three nurses who were tending to a shooting victim he had just dropped off when he fled in a Jeep Cherokee.
The man police say struck four people, including three nurses, at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in a hit-and-run on Saturday surrendered to police Wednesday.
Jaadir Goodwyn, accompanied by his lawyer, turned himself in at Philadelphia Police Headquarters around noon and faces multiple charges, including first-degree aggravated assault and related crimes, said Police Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore.
Goodwyn’s surrender came a day after police held a news conference identifying him as the suspect in the hit-and-run that left three nurses injured, including one who is still in critical condition, fighting for his life.
At the news conference, Vanore said that before the hit-and-run, three men got out of the Jeep, went inside the hospital’s emergency department, and pleaded for help. Soon afterward, the three men jumped back into the car and peeled off from the hospital, driving right into the three nurses and the associate they had dropped off, he said. The incident happened at around 4:20 a.m.
The shooting victim had been wounded on the 1300 block of Belmont Avenue, police said. He has not been identified and police said he was in stable condition.
The nurses who were injured are a 36-year-old man who was listed in critical condition and two other men — ages 51 and 37 — who were reported in stable condition.
Police are still working to identify the two other people who were in the Jeep as well as what led to the shooting on Belmont Avenue, said Vanore.
Despite a recent slew of hit-and-runs, such incidents have decreased since last year, according to police data.
As of Tuesday, there had been 473 hit-and-run crashes in Philadelphia, the data show. Last year through the same time period, there were 588, according to the data.
Through Oct. 15 last year, there were 36 fatal hit-and-runs, while through the same time this year there have been 26, police data show.
Philadelphia police said they were thoroughly investigating hit-and-run crashes and amping up enforcement on busy thoroughfares in the city.
“Additionally, Traffic Division has increased enforcement on high-crash roads, such as North Broad Street, Aramingo Avenue, and Lincoln Drive,” the department said in a statement. “While this effort doesn’t specifically target hit-and-runs, it aims to reduce the overall number of crashes, which can indirectly help decrease incidents where drivers flee the scene.”
The department said that while most crashes weren’t “inherently criminal,” leaving the scene is always a crime.