Sources identified the suspect in Monday’s mass shooting in Southwest Philadelphia as Kimbrady Carriker.
Carriker, 40, of Philadelphia, was arrested after being accused of killing five people and injuring two children in a shooting spree in the Kingsessing section of the city, sources said.
Shortly before 8:30 p.m., police responded to gunfire in the area of South 56th Street and Chester Avenue, said Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw. About 10 minutes later, with police following the suspect as he continued to fire a gun, he was cornered several blocks away in an alleyway on the 1600 block of South Frazier Street, she said.
The suspect was taken into custody without incident, police said.
Tina Rosette, 49, said she lived with Carriker for about a year on the 5600 block of Belmar Terrace in 2021. She said he was “really smart, intelligent, creative,” and loved working on computer programs.
She was shocked to hear he could’ve been involved in such a brutal act of gun violence, saying she’d never seen him with a gun before.
”I didn’t even know he had a gun,” she said.
Still, she said Carriker did have “an aggressive approach to some things in life.” One example: She said he sometimes taught young people how to fight, purportedly in self-defense, but didn’t give them much direction about how or when to stop.”
Tina’s daughter Cianni Rosette, 24, who lived with Tina and Carriker in West Philadelphia, said the two of them got along for a while, and that she enjoyed his personality, which she said was “cool” and creative.
But unlike her mother, Cianni Rosette said Carriker did show her a handgun several times.
”He was trying to get me comfortable around guns and stuff like that,” she said.
And she said he could be difficult to talk to occasionally — someone who could be aloof or easy to anger, even if he wouldn’t outwardly express it.
At one point, she said, Carriker told her he wanted to start a romantic relationship with her, and that he was “pushy” about it.
”I haven’t really talked to him after that rejection,” she said.
Tina Rosette and her daughter moved out about a year ago, and she said she believed Carriker had been in “a dark place” recently, though she wasn’t sure why.
She said she tried to stay in touch with him but only talked to him sporadically in the time since she left his house.
