$20K Reward Offered For Info On July 4 Officer Shooting

PHILADELPHIA — A $20,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest of whoever was responsible for the Monday shooting that hurt two police officers in Philadelphia.

Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 5 said the reward is available for to anyone who provides information that leads to the arrest of the shooter or shooters.

Shot were Sergio Diggs, a 36-year-old member of the Philadelphia Police Department's highway patrol, and Montgomery County Sheriff's Deputy John Foster, 44, who was assigned to the bomb squad task force.

Diggs was grazed by a bullet on his forehead and Foster was grazed by a bullet on his shoulder, according to officials.

Both were released from the hospital just a few hours after the shooting that occurred at about 9:47 p.m. Monday somewhere behind the Ferris wheel on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway.

The bullet that grazes Diggs was found lodges in his cap, where he kept a funeral mass card of late police Chaplain Father Stephen Wetzel, according to the FOP.

"We were inches away from planning a funeral for at least one brave Philadelphia Highway Patrol officer as a bullet lodged in his cap," FOP Lodge 5 President John McNesby said.

Anyone with information should call 911 or 215-686-8477.