PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Prosecutors have dropped charges against one of two men related to a shooting that wounded a Philadelphia police officer last fall.
Twenty-year-old James Gauthney had been charged with hindering apprehension, obstruction of justice and a related offense. KYW radio reports that prosecutors withdrew the charges Tuesday in a proceeding that lasted less than a minute.
Twenty-nine-year-old Jerome Hill is charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and related charges in the November shooting in the city’s Fairhill neighborhood. He is scheduled for a preliminary hearing next month.
Authorities said Hill and another man were fighting before the shooting that injured Officer Paul Sulock, a father of four who has been on the force for more than a decade and is the son of another officer.
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