16-Year-Old Arrested For Shooting Death Of Gerard Grandzol

A 16-year-old has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of Bucks County native and Philadelphia resident Gerard Grandzol, who was killed Thursday in front of his daughter during a carjacking attempt.

Multiple outlets are reporting the arrest. The teen's brother, identified by NBC10 as 21-year-old Maurice Roberts, has also been arrested in connection with the robbery, carjacking and shooting.

6ABC reports the 16-year-old was the alleged shooter.

Grandzol, 38, was shot in the face around 8 p.m. in the city's Spring Garden neighborhood.

According to NBC10, the father, daughter and family dog were returning from an outing at Fairmount Park's Lemon Hill. As Grandzol finished parking near his home along the 1500 block of Melon Street, two men dressed in black held him up at gunpoint.

He handed over his wallet and then the suspects tried to steal his SUV, but his 2-year-old daughter was inside so he wouldn't let them. That’s when the teen allegedly shot him twice in the face.

Neighbors rushed to help him but he died about 90 minutes later at Hahnemann University Hospital, ABC reports. Granzol's daughter was crying in the backseat when authorities arrived, the NBC10 report said.

The fatal shooting was captured on surveillance video.

Loved ones and friends were shocked and say they will greatly miss Grandzol, a proud father who was active in community organizations and was fondly referred to as the “mayor” by neighbors. He and his wife had recently welcomed their second daughter in July.

Grandzol is a 1997 graduate of Archbishop Wood High School in Warminster, Pa., where he played varsity ice hockey, according to his Linkedin biography. On that site, he describes himself as a “professional legal solutions expert, urbanist, bike-riding, hockey playing, husband and father.”

An online fundraiser has been set up in support of Grandzol's wife and two children, one of whom witnessed the brutal crime.

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