Officer Walker's family has gathered in tragedy before

Posted: August 24, 2012

When Moses Walker Jr.'s body is laid to rest Monday, it will not be the first time the fallen police officer's family has gathered amid tragedy.

Walker's younger brother, Montague, was 20 when he was found on a sidewalk in the Carroll Park section of West Philadelphia with multiple gunshot wounds on March 17, 2001.

Found on the 5400 block of Master Street at 2:57 p.m., Montague Walker was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was pronounced dead several hours later. Montague Walker lived on the unit block of North 61st Street, according to Officer Jillian Russell, a Philadelphia police spokeswoman.

Police identified the shooter, Russell said, as Ernest Cobb, who at the time of the shooting lived on the 5500 block of West Thompson Street, a few blocks from where Montague Walker was killed. A warrant was issued for Cobb's arrest, but he was never apprehended - instead, Russell said, he was the victim of a slaying in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Cobb was killed in October 2002 on Essex Street in Brooklyn, Russell said, and was in New York under the alias Hakim Harrison.

A New York Police Department spokesman said he could not verify that Harrison was an alias for Ernest Cobb, but did confirm that a Hakinm Harrison was killed at 10:40 a.m. on Oct. 15, 2002, at the Brooklyn address. Harrison was shot in the head and pronounced dead on arrival at a hospital. A suspected gunman was arrested in February 2005.

Members of Officer Walker's family declined to comment on Montague Walker's killing, citing a desire to keep the focus on Moses Walker.

- Jonathan Lai

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