PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia man is facing charges after federal prosecutors said he ran towards a police officer while holding a loaded handgun inside a ransacked pharmacy during last summer's unrest in Philadelphia.
Acting United States Attorney Jennifer Arbittier Williams said 23-year-old Mashaq White was a previously convicted felon when officers arrested him inside a pharmacy on the 5600 block of Chestnut Street in West Philadelphia with a loaded 9mm Ruger handgun.Officers were called to the pharmacy on June 1 for reports of a burglary in progress and found the store ransacked with the sprinkler system activated.Prosecutors said police body camera footage captured White running down a store aisle towards an officer while holding a.