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PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A police officer was shot to death blocks from his precinct house just after he finished his shift early Saturday in what authorities suspect was a street robbery. Police announced rewards totaling $30,000 to help them make an arrest. Officer Moses Walker Jr., 40, was shot several times around 6 a.m. about four blocks from his station in north Philadelphia, police said. He wasn't wearing a uniform. The 19-year-veteran, who was unmarried and had no children, was pronounced dead at a hospital in a city where on average nearly one person has been slain every day this year.
This photo provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows Officer Moses Walker Jr. Walker was shot and killed, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012, in North Philadelphia. Police said Walker had just gotten off his overnight shift and was not wearing his uniform as he walked along Cecil B. Moore Avenue, where he was shot multiple times just before 6 a.m., Saturday. Walker, 40, and a 19-year veteran of the Philadelphia Police Department, later died at the hospital. (AP Photo/Philadelphia Police Department)
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Neighbors watch as police investigate the crime scene where an off-duty Philadelphia police officer was shot and killed, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012, in North Philadelphia. Police said the officer had just gotten off his overnight shift and was not wearing his uniform as he walked along Cecil B. Moore Avenue, where he was shot multiple times just before 6 a.m., Saturday. The officer later died at the hospital. (AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek)
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A K-9 police unit walks through the crime scene where an off-duty Philadelphia police officer was shot and killed, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012, in North Philadelphia. Police said the officer had just gotten off his overnight shift and was not wearing his uniform as he walked along Cecil B. Moore Avenue, where he was shot multiple times just before 6 a.m., Saturday. The officer later died at the hospital. (AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek)
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Police investigate the crime scene where an off-duty Philadelphia police officer was shot and killed, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012, in North Philadelphia. Police said the officer had just gotten off his overnight shift and was not wearing his uniform as he walked along Cecil B. Moore Avenue, where he was shot multiple times just before 6 a.m., Saturday. The officer later died at the hospital. (AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek)
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Police investigate the crime scene after an off-duty Philadelphia police officer was shot and killed, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012, in North Philadelphia. Police said the officer had just gotten off his overnight shift and was not wearing his uniform as he walked along Cecil B. Moore Avenue, where he was shot multiple times just before 6 a.m., Saturday. The officer later died at the hospital. (AP Photo/Joseph Kaczmarek)
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Crime scene investigators look over an officer's handgun after the off-duty Philadelphia police officer was shot and mortally wounded, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012, in North Philadelphia. Police said the officer had just gotten off his overnight shift and was not wearing his uniform as he walked along Cecil B. Moore Avenue, where he was shot multiple times just before 6 a.m., Saturday. The officer later died at the hospital. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)
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Crime scene investigators look over an officer's handgun after the off-duty Philadelphia police officer was shot and mortally wounded, Saturday, Aug. 18, 2012, in North Philadelphia. Police said the officer had just gotten off his overnight shift and was not wearing his uniform as he walked along Cecil B. Moore Avenue, where he was shot multiple times just before 6 a.m., Saturday. The officer later died at the hospital. (AP Photo/ Joseph Kaczmarek)
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