Police probe man's claim he shot officer in Allah's name

In the meantime, the officer's wounds did not keep him down. Hartnett was patrolling solo when Archer approached while wearing a long white robe, which appeared to be the thobe (or dishdasha) garment favored by Muslim men. Other officers chased Archer and apprehended him. Bleeding heavily, his arm limp, he struggled out of his auto and managed to run after Archer, fire back and wound him.

With Holliday admitting that her son Edward had believed he was being targeted by the police, it sounds like Archer might have been experiencing symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia, a subtype of schizophrenia.

A gunman who shot and seriously wounded a police officer in the US northeastern city of Philadelphia said he had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) group, police said Friday.

Capt. James Clark told CNN the suspect told police: "I follow Allah".

Police Commissioner Richard Ross echoed the statement at a news conference on Friday, saying that Archer confessed to the shooting "in the name of Islam".

They also say the man, who has addresses in Philadelphia and the suburb of Yeadon, used a stolen police gun in the crime. He's being treated for wounds that are not life-threatening, and condition is unknown. "It is abhorrent", he said.

Kenney said Friday of the shooting, "It's awful and it does not represent the religion [Islam] in any way shape or form or any of its teachings".

Police and agents with the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force continued to scour Archer's Internet activity and probe what, if any, contact he may have had with radical Islamic groups during a monthlong trip in 2011 to Saudi Arabia, during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

- One member of Congress, the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said that he believes the shooter was acting on orders from ISIS in Syria.

The 9 mm pistol recovered at the scene of the shooting had been stolen from a fellow police officer's home in October 2013, and investigators were trying to find out how Archer obtained the weapon and whether it passed through other people's hands since the theft.

"I don't know how this officer survived", Commissioner Ross said.

He was arrested in 2012 after a domestic dispute.

In the 2012 domestic dispute, Archer "pulled a small black and silver semiautomatic handgun from his waist and pointed it towards the complainant's stomach while grabbing the complainant's shirt", according to the affidavit for probable cause.

Court records show Archer was found guilty in November of several charges, including fraud and forgery, and was awaiting sentencing.

This was after the suspect fired into the officer's cruise 11 times.

Authorities said they were astonished he survived.

"This is absolutely one of the scariest things I've ever seen", Ross told a press conference.

Hartnett underwent surgery after the shooting and will require further operations but is expected to make a full recovery.

Hartnett was in good spirits, said his father, Robert Hartnett.

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