PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The family of a 22-year-old West Philadelphia man who FBI agents shot and killed last August is looking for clarity from authorities about what happened.
“If you have an arrest warrant or a search warrant, it should not be your death warrant,” said Stacy Weeks, who for six months has been agonizing over what happened to her son, Tahiem Weeks-Cook.
Attorney Paul Hetznecker says she wants to know why FBI agents gunned him down on West Venango Street, near 17th Street, on the afternoon of Aug. 4, 2023.
“It was painful watching my son suffer,” she said.
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Residential surveillance video provided by Hetznecker shows Weeks-Cook running from armed officers in combat gear. FBI agents can be seen riding alongside him in a van as he runs. An agent fires a shot from inside the van, hitting Weeks-Cook.
After he falls to the ground, agents are then seen swarming Weeks-Cook and pulling him across the street. Eventually the agents take him away, leaving behind a puddle of his blood.