Jumaane Wright, 28, of Elkins Park (Cheltenham Township), was shot and killed by police in Brooklyn on Tuesday night after they caught him driving a stolen Porsche, The Gothamist reported.

According to NYPD Chief of Department John Chell, the car was stolen from Pennsylvania. When officers tried to pull over Wright, he got off the parkway and sped back onto it eastbound.

“This Porsche, at a high rate of speed, maneuvered onto the service road in [the] direction of several officers who set up a roadblock to stop this vehicle,” Chell said.

An officer fired a single shot that struck Wright after he nearly struck police with the car. He died at Brookdale Hospital.

In November 2024, Wright’s name appeared in a list of coconspirators compiled by the United States Attorney’s Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania after a federal grand jury charged ten individuals from several states with an auto theft conspiracy and multiple counts of transporting stolen motor vehicles interstate.

The indictment said that from October 2023 through September 2024, ten defendants—hailing from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Maryland—conspired with each other and others to transport stolen motor vehicles interstate and to receive, possess, conceal, store, sell, and dispose of stolen motor vehicles that had been transported interstate.

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