Parents want answers after tow truck driver killed in drive-by shooting
6abc Philadelphia••nation
Key Points:
- Aaron Whitfield Jr., a 25-year-old tow truck driver, was fatally shot outside a smoke shop in Northeast Philadelphia, with his girlfriend critically injured in the same incident.
- Surveillance footage shows a silver Honda pulling up next to Whitfield's tow truck before two occupants fired at least a dozen shots, then fled the scene; both suspects remain at large.
- Police have not identified a motive, though towing-related violence has been an ongoing issue in the city; no direct link has been established to a similar recent shooting of another tow truck driver.
- Whitfield's parents describe him as a gentle, hardworking individual uninvolved in street violence, and they are pleading for information to bring justice and understand the senseless attack.
