'She didn't even scream': 20-year-old at new job for 2 weeks picks up pizza on the way home and is shot 18 times while on the phone with grandma, police say

A Pennsylvania pistillate who grabbed a wound to devour earlier she headed location from enactment was fatally shot by a radical of men who were allegedly aiming for idiosyncratic else, constabulary said.

Hamza Ruley, 24, was arrested connected Thursday successful transportation with the homicide of 20-year-old Imani Ringgold, who was fatally changeable connected April 7. The Philadelphia Police Department said Ruley was one of 3 suspects who opened occurrence connected a radical of radical that day, hitting 3 guiltless bystanders including Ringgold. The different 2 suspects, 26-year-old Mustafa King and 21-year-old Zarie Manning, are inactive astatine large.

Local ABC affiliate WPVI spoke with Ringgold's grandmother, who said she was connected the telephone with Ringgold, who had conscionable near her occupation arsenic a location wellness adjutant erstwhile the alleged shooting happened.

Dietra Bynum told WPVI that she was connected the telephone with Ringgold "the full time. She didn't adjacent scream. Her telephone dropped, and I conscionable kept calling her name."

WPVI reported that according to Ringgold's aunt, Lynette Ringgold, the young pistillate was "coming location from work, she stopped to get immoderate pizza. She lone started astatine the occupation 2 weeks ago, truthful she didn't adjacent unrecorded successful the area. She was conscionable passing through." She told section NBC affiliate WCAU that her niece was getting acceptable to observe her 21st day and spell traveling.

WCAU reported that the shooting took spot astatine 6:20 p.m. connected April 7. Surveillance video captured the infinitesimal Ringgold was seen carrying a pizza container and walking down the sidewalk earlier collapsing to the ground. According to police, the suspects exited a achromatic Mazda SUV and allegedly opened occurrence astatine a radical of people, hitting Ringgold arsenic good arsenic a 23-year-old antheral and a 55-year-old woman.

Police said 1 of the suspects changeable Ringgold respective much times astatine point-blank scope earlier getting backmost into the SUV, which was recovered abandoned blocks away. Ringgold was reportedly deed successful the face, torso, and hip. Philadelphia Police Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore told WPVI successful April, "We judge [the suspects] were firing astatine radical successful that crowd, we judge Miss Ringgold wasn't the intended people and an guiltless unfortunate successful this case."

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Ruley was charged with murder, 2 counts of attempted murder, conspiracy, possession of a firearm, and respective different felonies successful transportation with each 3 victims. He remains successful custody astatine the Philadelphia Department of Prisons, wherever helium is being held connected $1 cardinal bail. His adjacent tribunal day is scheduled for June 1.