Philly police ID officer who shot Camaro driver after it hit another officer during a car-meetup investigation
Police were investigating a car meetup in a Target parking lot when Quron Banks, 22, allegedly fled the scene in a red Camaro, police said.
The Philadelphia Police Department on Friday identified the officer who shot a 22-year-old man accused of striking another officer with a Chevrolet Camaro in connection with an investigation of a car meetup earlier this month.
Officer Ryan Daut, 35, a 14-year veteran of the force, was undercover and assigned to the department’s car meetup when, police said, he fired a single shot at the Camaro — allegedly driven by Quron Banks — after the car hit and knocked down a uniformed officer on the 800 block of Master Street in North Philadelphia.
Banks was later located at Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital in Darby Borough in stable condition with a gunshot wound to his neck. He was transferred to Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, where he was still being held Friday on charges including aggravated assault, causing a catastrophe, fleeing or attempting to elude an officer, riot with intent to commit a felony, and related offenses.
Banks has an active stolen-vehicle case in Philadelphia from May that also includes a charge of fleeing or attempting to elude an officer, court records show.
He also faces new charges from another stolen-vehicle case, court records show.
On Jan. 11, Philadelphia police monitoring the city for illegal car meetups learned about one occurring in the parking lot of a Target department store on the 4000 block of Monument Road, near where City Avenue connects to I-76.
As police arrived late that night, vehicles began fleeing, including a red Camaro allegedly operated by Banks, who police say was recognized for his past involvement in meetups.
Police lost track of the Camaro, but then it turned up a few hours later — around 2 a.m. Jan. 12 — on Master Street.
That’s when Daut shot Banks, who was able to drive away, police said.
The 36-year-old officer who was hit by the Camaro and struck her head on the ground when she fell was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where she was treated and released.
The Camaro was later located in Upper Darby, police said.
Daut was placed on administrative duty pending a required internal investigation of the shooting.
Police have been cracking down on car meetups since a chaotic series of street takeovers were staged across Philadelphia over a seven-hour period in September.