A fugitive wanted for a murder that took place in Nov. 2025 in Philadelphia was taken into custody after getting shot and stabbed in an incident in Germantown on Sunday, Jan. 4, 2026, police said.
According to police, 32-year-old Arkel Garcia was wanted for murder after a 68-year-old David Weinkopff was found unresponsive with signs of blunt force trauma in an apartment at the 4900 block of Stenton Avenue on Nov. 12, 2025.
On Sunday, Garcia was found in the parking lot of a store at the 5200 block of Germantown Avenue and taken to the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds and stab wounds, police said.
According to police, a preliminary investigation has found that Garcia was involved in a fight with other people in a residence at the block that resulted in Garcia getting shot after he shot another person in the arm.
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An unidentified 37-year-old man who remains detained by police said that he is the one who initially shot Garcia, police said. The detained man also said that he struck and stabbed Garcia while trying to protect others and then shot Garcia again during a struggle over a firearm.
At some point, Garcia left to flee to a parking lot where he was ultimately found, but the detained man followed him and yelled for people to call 911, police said.
Police did not say which store the parking lot was for, but NBC10 was at the scene on Sunday to find crime scene tape near the Family Dollar.
Garcia is listed in critical condition and the other man shot, who was only identified as a 34-year-old man, is listed in stable condition, police said.
No formal charges have yet been brought in the Germantown incident, police said.
Anyone with any information on the incident is urged to contact the Philadelphia Police Department at 215-686-TIPS (8477) or anonymously online here.
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