Overview
- The trail camera video, recorded around 2 a.m. Saturday, shows a masked person walking across a South Philadelphia roof deck.
- Neighbor Bill Fitch says he watched the man in a ski mask with a flashlight checking windows, then called 911, but officers arrived after the man left.
- Philadelphia police are investigating the case as possible criminal trespass and say someone can face charges for being on a private roof without permission.
- Neighbors believe the intruder reached the connected roofs through a broken alley gate by an abandoned house, a barrier that residents install even though city rules forbid gating alleys.
- People on the block report feeling unsafe and have added stopgaps like locking and blocking doors and posting a 'No Trespassers' sign, while urging the city to fix the gate.