UPPER DARBY, Pa. (KYW Newsradio) — Officials in Delaware County have arrested two men for separate homicides they say were both committed in Upper Darby.
It was on Oct. 29 when 65-year-old Mohammad Rahman was shot and killed in front of his Upper Darby mosque during a carjacking, according to Delaware County District Attorney Jack Stollsteimer. He says the person responsible for both the murder and theft of Rahman’s car is 20-year-old Herman Stigall.
“I am here today to tell you we have done our job. We are bringing Mr. Stigall to justice for that bloodthirsty murder of Mr. Rahman,” said the district attorney.
Upper Darby Police Superintendent Timothy Bernhardt says they were able to catch up with Stigall last week thanks to hours of digging through video, finding evidence and working with Philadelphia police.
“We pursued him through the city of Philadelphia,” Bernhardt said. “He got onto Interstate 76, where he crashed. He bailed out of that vehicle. He was captured on Martin Luther King Drive.”
Stollsteimer says they also arrested Marson Weh for the April 21 stabbing death of 15-year-old Michael Garr.
“A juvenile who was doing nothing more than any juvenile should be able to do anywhere in America,” Stollsteimer said of Garr, “just walking down the street in his own neighborhood and he was stabbed and killed at random by Mr. Weh.”
Bernhardt says Weh, who also stabbed a pregnant woman and stole her vehicle, is currently serving a 9 ½-year prison sentence in Ohio for assault and stealing another vehicle.
“With the help and the work of our district attorney’s office, he will be coming back here to answer to our charges,” Bernhardt said.
Stigall and Weh are charged with first degree murder as well as a number of other offenses.