Surveillance video may help in pizza delivery homicide

PHILADELPHIA - March 12, 2011

They hope it leads them to the killer.

Surveillance video taken at the crime scene in the 4100 block of Aspen in Mantua shows a person that may have lured a pizza deliveryman to his death.

36 year old Kouakow Jacques worked for Accu Pizza at 48th and Spruce Street.

On the night of January 20, 2010, he was delivering a pizza at an address near 41st and Aspen Streets, but police say the people living there had not ordered one.

Police say the bogus call for the pizza came from a pay phone at 41st and Lancaster Avenue not far from the murder scene.

Before Jacques could deliver the pizza, he was ambushed.

"The subject approaches him, shoots him, kills him and as a result, we're looking for that individual on the tape," says John Apeldorn from the Citizens Crime Commission. "We believe he is a person of interest that can lead us to the perpetrator of the crime."

Police are looking for a person of interest believed to be in the surveillance video captured just moments before the killing.

"This individual, we're trying to find out who he is. He may be wanted in the possible homicide. He'll meet this individual, bumming something off of him, maybe a cigarette. He gets what he needs from him, and he exits down to the scene of the crime," explains Santo Montecalvo.

The Citizens Crime Commission is offering a $1,000 reward. If you know the man in the video, make that anonymous call to the Tipline, 215-546-TIPS.

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