On the evening of February 6, 2022, 60-year-old George Andes Briscella, a United States Marine veteran, drove his 2022 Toyota RAV4 to his mother’s home on Afton Street in the Rhawnhurst neighborhood of Northeast Philadelphia to use her printer. Surveillance footage shows three people approaching his vehicle about a minute after he arrived. Three gunshots were heard; Briscella’s RAV4 then drove off and responding officers found him with gunshot wounds to the abdomen and back. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead shortly after 9 p.m.

The weapon was later identified as an assault-style rifle. Police linked the killing to a carjacking ring that targeted Toyota vehicles, tracing a silver Toyota to Jonathan Akubu and recovering the rifle at his residence. Three additional suspects were arrested as alleged accomplices. A federal indictment later charged six men in a wide-ranging conspiracy tied to at least 29 armed carjackings and the shipment of stolen vehicles overseas; prosecutors alleged Mikal McCracken, Amin Muse, Aleem Abdul-Hakim, and Jonathan Akubu were directly involved in Briscella’s shooting.

Anyone with information about George Briscella or the Rhawnhurst attack is asked to come forward.