Crime & Safety

Motorcyclist Arrested For Smashing Woman's Car Window In Philly: Cops

A Frankford man was charged with assault after jumping onto the woman's car and smashing its rear windshield with his feet.

 A motorcyclist captured on video leaping onto a woman's car, smashing the windshield and pulling a gun on her was arrested after Philadelphia police asked for the public's help locating him, authorities said.
A motorcyclist captured on video leaping onto a woman's car, smashing the windshield and pulling a gun on her was arrested after Philadelphia police asked for the public's help locating him, authorities said. (Philadelphia Police Department)

PHILADELPHIA, PA — A motorcyclist captured on video leaping onto a woman's car, smashing the windshield and pulling a gun on her was arrested and charged Wednesday after Philadelphia police asked for the public's help locating him.

Cody Monroe Heron, 26, of Frankford, was charged with aggravated assault following Sunday's incident where he climbed onto an Uber Eats driver's car and smashed the rear windshield with his feet, the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office said at a Wednesday news conference. Authorities said the driver's girlfriend and their two young children were also in the car at the time.

Heron was taken into custody overnight, Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore said in a social media post.

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"SIG & Major Crimes Detectives have made an arrest overnight in the assault/vandalism that occurred on Sunday in Center City, involving the male on the motorcycle," Vanore's post read. "Great tips from public and some outstanding detective work."

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Dramatic video released by Philadelphia police showed the confrontation unfolding around 9:40 p.m. Sunday near City Hall as a group of ATVs and dirt bikes drove past two cars parked in the right lane.

The suspect, whom police later identified as Heron, can be seen walking away from his bike and toward one of the parked cars before leaping onto the back windshield and smashing it with his feet.

An object that appears to be a handgun falls from the suspect's khakis as he jumps off the car. The driver, identified by ABC6 as Nikki Bullock, steps out and confronts the suspect, who pulls his gun on her and shoves her.

The suspect climbs back onto his bike and Bullock pushes him, knocking over him and his bike. He flees the scene as Bullock goes back to her car and picks up a small child before walking out of frame and leaving the vandalized car behind.

Bullock was with her girlfriend, their 5-year-old daughter, and their 2-year-old son, delivering for Uber Eats when she was first sideswiped by the biker near City Hall, ABC6 reported.

Bullock told ABC6 that neither of her children were hurt.

"They are ok. Not a single scratch," Bullock told the station. "I have a guardian angel. Thank God."

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