by Alex Lloyd Gross
Philadelphia Police have released an update to a murder that happened on Sackett Street earlier this week. Walus Mateus, 42 of the 3100 block of Wellington Street has been arrested and charged with murder, carrying an unlicensed gun and related firearms charges, after police said he gunned down his neighbor, Emerson Desouza.
Alex Lloyd Gross photo-Delaware Valley News.com, Investigators take notes on Sackett Street. The pick-up truck is where the shooting happened.
Police said both men lived on the same block of Wellington Street. Desouza was around the corner at his work truck, which was parked on Sackett Street. Mateus got into an argument with him and shot him next to his truck.
Mateus ran away from the scene but was arrested less than 24 hours later.