Teen still on loose
It's been more than a month since a shooting at a Butler apartment complex left a Philadelphia man dead.
His alleged teenage killer remains on the run.
And the suspect, David “Dae Dae” Jabril Franklin, 19, of Brackenridge, Allegheny County, is apparently doing a good job keeping a low profile.
“We've received no tips or reports of any sightings,” Supervisory Deputy U.S. Marshal Jon Gallagher of the U.S. Marshals Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force said Monday.
The marshals' task force is leading the manhunt for Franklin, who is accused in an arrest warrant of gunning down 20-year-old Rashaan Khalil Adams at the Wick Street Apartments on March 16.
Specifically, he is charged with a top count of homicide.
Butler police said Franklin shot Adams twice in the head and once in the chest. Adams died on the kitchen floor of the apartment. He had spent the previous night there.
Kimberly Schnur, who was the tenant at the time, told police she witnessed the shooting.
Police Detective Lt. Anthony Fatta said there were several people — including Schnur, the suspect and victim — in the apartment when the gunfire erupted about 10 a.m.
Investigators have side-stepped any discussion of a motive in the case.Police searched for Franklin immediately after the deadly shooting but could find no trail on him.Within days they had turned over the manhunt to the U.S. Marshals. Police, however, are still part of the search.“But we have no new leads in the investigation,” Butler police Deputy Chief David Adam said Monday.Gallagher said marshals have reached out to family and friends of Franklin for clues about his possible whereabouts. That has yielded no help.“The family is not cooperating,” he acknowledged.He could not say if the young fugitive, who is considered armed and dangerous, may have fled the state.Gallagher said it is “not unusual” for marshals to have little or no information about their target. In time, he added, he has confidence they would get their man.He would not discuss what other methods are being used to track down the suspect.Gallagher also insisted he was not discouraged that Franklin is still on the lam.“We're not frustrated,” he said. “It's part of the job. Some investigations take longer than others.”
