Delco Chinese Restaurant Shooter Gets 15 To 40 Years In Prison

UPPER DARBY, PA — A Philadelphia man who shot two people at an Upper Darby Chinese restaurant will spend up to 40 years in prison, according to authorities.

Delaware County District Attorney Katayoun M. Copeland announced that Oscar J. Seth-Murray, III, 27, Philadelphia, was sentenced to 15 to 40 years imprisonment after pleading guilty to shooting two victims.

Following a negotiated plea on May 2 to attempted homicide, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, Seth-Murray was sentenced Thursday, June 20 to 15 to 40 years.

At 11:53 p.m. on June 15, 2018, officers from the Upper Darby Police Department responded to a Chinese restaurant on the 700 block of Garrett Road in Upper Darby, for the report of a shooting.

There, officers found an adult male who had been shot in the neck and one teenage male who had been shot in the leg. Both were taken to the hospital.

Detectives responded to the scene and reviewed surveillance camera footage from within the store, interviewed of witnesses, and conducted further investigations.

The DA's office said those efforts revealed that the two victims and Seth-Murray were inside the restaurant waiting for their food orders to be prepared.

Upon purchasing his food, Seth-Murray started to leave the restaurant and as he did so, made eye contact with the adult male victim.

Within five minutes after leaving the restaurant, Seth-Murray returned to the restaurant, pulled out a handgun from his waistband, and while waiving the firearm at other patrons, attempted to drag the adult male victim out of the restaurant.

While in the doorway of the restaurant, Seth-Murray then shot the adult male victim in the neck at point-blank range, also causing the teenage male victim to sustain a gunshot wound in the leg. Seth-Murray fled the scene and was arrested two days later by Upper Darby detectives after being identified by video surveillance and witnesses.