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Police said Jamal Pistoria was arrested early Friday on South Broad Street after a woman was killed at a Stenton Avenue salon.

The Philadelphia Police Department's note says two 22nd District officers arrested Jamal Pistoria, 33, at about 1 a.m. on November 6, 2026, on the 500 block of South Broad Street. The Philadelphia Inquirer, FOX 29 Philadelphia, and 6abc put that stop on a SEPTA bus. NBC10 Philadelphia prints his age as 29 and says SEPTA police made the arrest. The two surviving women are not named.

By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·

Jamal Pistoria
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Age 33, and age 29, are not the same age. Two officers from the 22nd District, and SEPTA police, are not the same arresting agency. West Oak Lane, East Mount Airy, and East Germantown are not the same neighborhood label. Bellaniri Ofelia Hernandez Camilo, Ofelia Bellaniri Hernandez Camill, and Ofelia Bellaniri Hernandez Camil are not the same spelling. The two surviving women are not named.

The Philadelphia Police Department, in a media note for a Friday, November 6, 2026, availability, reported that on November 6, 2026, at approximately 1 a.m., two officers from the 22nd District arrested Jamal Pistoria, a 33-year-old male, wanted in connection with the homicide of Ofelia Bellaniri Hernandez Camill and the assaults of two additional victims. It reported he was taken into custody on the 500 block of South Broad Street. That note does not print the word bus. An overnight incidents note from the department repeats the arrest paragraph and adds that the new mugshot is not available at this time. The Philadelphia Inquirer, by Ellie Rushing, published at 9:13 a.m. ET on Nov. 6, 2026, and updated at 10:46 a.m. ET, reported Philadelphia Police Department officers arrested Pistoria on a SEPTA bus on the 500 block of South Broad Street at about 1 a.m., according to a SEPTA spokesperson. It reported he is 33. It said staff writer Emily Bloch contributed. FOX 29 Philadelphia, by Dan O'Mara, published at 8:18 a.m. EST on November 6, 2026, and updated at 8:19 a.m. EST, reported Jamal Pistoria, 33, was taken into custody while aboard a SEPTA bus on South Broad Street around 1 a.m., and that SEPTA confirmed that to FOX 29. It does not print the 500 block. 6abc, by 6abc Digital Staff, dated Friday, November 6, 2026, at 3:58 p.m., reported Jamal Pistoria, 33, was taken into custody while on a SEPTA bus in the 500 block of S. Broad Street around 1 a.m., according to police. NBC10 Philadelphia, by Hayden Mitman, reported Jamal Pistoria, 29, was arrested by SEPTA police at about 1 a.m. when he was discovered on a bus along the 500 block of South Broad Street. The byline on that arrest story did not print a fixed clock when the page was fetched on Nov. 6. An NBC10 story published November 4, 2026, by Hayden Mitman, Cherise Lynch, and Johnny Archer, had already printed the age 29. Age 33, on the police note, the Inquirer, FOX 29, and 6abc, and age 29, on NBC10, are not the same age. Two officers from the 22nd District, on the police note, and SEPTA police, on NBC10, are not the same arresting agency. A SEPTA bus, on the Inquirer, FOX 29, 6abc, and NBC10, and a custody line with no bus, on the police note, are not the same place. South Broad Street with no block, on FOX 29, and the 500 block of South Broad Street, on the police note, the Inquirer, 6abc, and NBC10, are not the same address line. The note listed Staff Inspector Ernest Ransom of the Homicide Unit for a media availability at 1:00 p.m. Friday at the Philadelphia Public Services Building, 400 N. Broad Street. This account does not quote that availability.

On Monday, November 2, 2026, at approximately 2:07 p.m., officers from the 14th District responded to a shooting on the 6300 block of Stenton Avenue, the police note reported. It reported an adult female suffering from gunshot wounds was transported by police to Albert Einstein Medical Center, where she was pronounced deceased at 2:35 p.m. It identified her as Ofelia Bellaniri Hernandez Camill, 34, who resided on the 500 block of West 121st Street in New York, New York. It reported two additional females, ages 33 and 44, were also assaulted. It reported the motive remains unknown. It does not print a salon name or a neighborhood name. The Inquirer reported he walked into ABBA Blessed Beauty Salon in West Oak Lane on Monday afternoon, that prosecutors said he did not know the women and appeared to target the store at random, and that the woman killed was 34-year-old Bellaniri Ofelia Hernandez Camilo. A photograph caption on that page spells her Bellaniris Hernandez Camilo. Bellaniri Ofelia Hernandez Camilo, in the Inquirer body, and Bellaniris Hernandez Camilo, in the Inquirer caption, are not the same spelling. Ofelia Bellaniri Hernandez Camill, on the police note, and Bellaniri Ofelia Hernandez Camilo, in the Inquirer body, are not the same order and not the same final letter. FOX 29 reported he entered the Abba Blessed Beauty Salon on Stenton Avenue on November 2 and fatally shot 34-year-old Bellaniri Hernandez Camilo. It also reported he forced a female employee into the back of the building, where three other women were, and that two women survived. Three other women in the back, and three women in the room, are not the same count. A related line on that FOX 29 page uses East Germantown, the 6300 block of Stenton Avenue, around 2:00 p.m. Monday, and the spelling Bellaniri Ofelia Hernandez-Camil. Abba, and ABBA, are not the same capitalization. Hernandez Camilo, Hernandez-Camil, and Hernandez Camill are not the same spelling. 6abc reported a salon on the 6300 block of Stenton Avenue in East Mount Airy and identified the woman who was killed as 34-year-old Ofelia Bellaniri Hernandez Camil of New York City. Of New York City, on 6abc, and the 500 block of West 121st Street in New York, New York, on the police note, are not the same address. NBC10 reported 34-year-old Bellaniri Ofelia Hernandez Camilo was shot and killed at a hair salon in East Germantown. West Oak Lane, East Mount Airy, and East Germantown are not the same neighborhood label. Approximately 2:07 p.m., on the police note, around 2:00 p.m., on the FOX 29 related line, and Monday afternoon, on the Inquirer and 6abc, are not the same clock. Gunshot wounds, on the police note, shot multiple times, in the Inquirer, and shot in the head, on NBC10, are not the same wound line. The two surviving women are not named here.

What the pages say he is expected to face is not one charge list. The Inquirer reported he is expected to be charged with murder, attempted murder, sexual assault, and related crimes, and reported prosecutors said he sexually assaulted one of the women. FOX 29 reported he faces several charges, including murder and rape, and reported investigators said he sexually assaulted all three women. 6abc reported he is "facing charging" for murder, sexual assault, robbery, and other offenses, which are expected later Friday. NBC10 reported two other women were sexually assaulted and did not print a charge list on the arrest story. The police note does not print a charge list. Expected to be charged, "facing charging" with offenses expected later Friday, and faces several charges, are not the same filing status. One woman, on the Inquirer, all three women, on FOX 29, and two other women, on NBC10, are not the same count of sexual-assault allegations. The acts those pages describe are not repeated here. The two surviving women are not named here. Assistant District Attorney Jeff Hojnowski, head of the homicide unit, told the Inquirer earlier this week, "She doesn't appear to engage him at all whatsoever. She doesn't appear to fight back. He just decides to shoot her." The Inquirer reported the attack lasted six minutes and that the two women fought back after the gun ran out of bullets. FOX 29 reported about six minutes and that the two surviving women fought back when the weapon stopped firing. Six minutes, and about six minutes, are not the same duration. The Inquirer reported he took a small amount of money from the cash register. FOX 29 reported he stopped at the front cash register and stole something. NBC10 reported he tried to take the cash register, dropped it, and picked something up. A small amount of money, something, and a dropped register are not the same theft line. The Inquirer and FOX 29 reported surveillance afterward of him buying a soda, his face uncovered. The Inquirer says a corner store. FOX 29 says a convenience store. Targeted at random, in the Inquirer, seemingly at random, on 6abc, and a motive that remains unknown, on the police note, are not the same finding. The Inquirer reported that in 2016 he was charged in Montgomery County with burglary, robbery, making threats, and drug possession, that he pleaded guilty the following year to a single count of criminal trespassing, and that he was sentenced to two to four years in prison. That plea is a 2016 case. It is not this arrest. The arrest and the expected charges are what those pages describe. They do not print a conviction in the salon killing. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

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