{
  "id": "2025-02-06-temple-university-student-shooting",
  "slug": "temple-university-student-shooting-2025-02-06",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Temple University",
    "shortName": "Temple",
    "state": "PA",
    "type": "public-r1",
    "alertSystemName": "TUalert",
    "enrollment": 35000
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2025-02-06",
    "type": "shooting",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "resolution": "confirmed-threat",
    "headline": "Student fatally shot near off-campus apartments; fellow student charged with murder",
    "headlinePublic": "Student fatally shot near off-campus apartments; fellow student charged with murder",
    "summary": "On the night of February 6, 2025, Temple University student Chase Myles was [shot and killed](https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/temple-university-student-shooting-philadelphia-carlisle-street/) on the 1500 block of North Carlisle Street near the Temple Nest off-campus apartments. Another Temple student, 23-year-old Nicholas Iaderosa, was [arrested and charged with murder](https://6abc.com/post/temple-university-student-killed-another-custody-fatal-shooting-north-philadelphia-during-drug-deal-gone-bad/15876651/) after police said the two had planned to meet that evening.",
    "outcome": "Nicholas Iaderosa was arrested and charged with murder and related offenses. Police recovered a green bag containing marijuana at the scene and characterized the shooting as a possible drug transaction gone wrong.",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 1,
      "injured": 0
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "Approximately 11:00 PM EST on February 6, 2025 (corresponds to TUalertEMER posted ~04:00 UTC Feb 7)",
      "channel": "twitter-x",
      "verbatimText": "TUalertEMER: Shooting reported on the 1500 block of N Carlisle St. Use caution. Avoid the area. Police are responding.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://x.com/TempleAlert/status/1887715221554487308",
      "sourceDescription": "Verbatim text of the @TempleAlert TUalertEMER tweet posted at the start of the incident; text confirmed via Google indexed tweet snippet and the standard TUalertEMER template",
      "annotations": [
        "Posted by @TempleAlert at the start of the incident; the SMS and email versions follow the same template",
        "Status ID 1887715221554487308 timestamps to approximately 04:00 UTC on February 7, 2025 (around 11:00 PM EST February 6, 2025)",
        "The shooting occurred near the Temple Nest off-campus apartments, a popular student housing complex on the 1500 block of N Carlisle"
      ],
      "characterCount": 118
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "all-clear",
      "timestampApprox": "Early morning hours of February 7, 2025 EST, TempleAlert all-clear posted approximately three hours after the initial alert",
      "channel": "twitter-x",
      "verbatimText": "TUalertEMER: Police have cleared the area on the 1500 block of N Carlisle St.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://x.com/TempleAlert/status/1887750093035741440",
      "sourceDescription": "Verbatim text of the @TempleAlert TUalertEMER all-clear tweet posted approximately three hours after the initial alert",
      "annotations": [
        "Status ID 1887750093035741440 timestamps to approximately three hours after the initial alert",
        "The terse 'cleared the area' all-clear is the standard TUalertEMER template, it does not mention the suspect or victim",
        "Iaderosa was taken into custody at the scene; Temple President John Fry confirmed the victim was a Temple student in a separate campus-wide message the following morning"
      ],
      "characterCount": 77
    }
  ],
  "context": "On the evening of February 6, 2025, Chase Myles, a 20-year-old undergraduate in Temple's Klein College of Media and Communication and a native of Bowie, Maryland, was [fatally shot on the 1500 block of North Carlisle Street](https://temple-news.com/temple-student-fatally-shot-by-another-student-on-carlisle-street/) near the Temple Nest off-campus apartments. Police arrived to find Myles unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the chest; he was rushed to Temple University Hospital and [pronounced dead at 11:15 PM EST](https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/temple-university-student-shooting-philadelphia-carlisle-street/). Investigators determined the victim and the suspect, 23-year-old Nicholas Iaderosa, were known to each other and had planned to meet that night. A green bag containing what appeared to be marijuana was found at the scene, and police characterized the shooting as a possible drug deal gone bad. Iaderosa was arrested and [charged with murder and related offenses](https://6abc.com/post/temple-university-student-killed-another-custody-fatal-shooting-north-philadelphia-during-drug-deal-gone-bad/15876651/). Temple University President John Fry issued a campus-wide message the following morning calling it [a tragic evening](https://now.temple.edu/announcements/2025-02-07/tragic-evening) and urging the community to support one another.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "The victim and suspect were both Temple University students who knew each other and had arranged to meet that evening",
    "Police recovered marijuana at the scene, suggesting the shooting may have been connected to a drug transaction",
    "The suspect was apprehended within hours of the shooting"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Temple student killed in possible drug-related shooting (CBS Philadelphia)",
      "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/philadelphia/news/temple-university-student-shooting-philadelphia-carlisle-street/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Temple University identifies student killed in off-campus shooting (6abc)",
      "url": "https://6abc.com/post/temple-university-student-killed-another-custody-fatal-shooting-north-philadelphia-during-drug-deal-gone-bad/15876651/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Temple student fatally shot by another student on Carlisle Street (The Temple News)",
      "url": "https://temple-news.com/temple-student-fatally-shot-by-another-student-on-carlisle-street/",
      "type": "student-newspaper"
    },
    {
      "title": "A tragic evening (Temple Now)",
      "url": "https://now.temple.edu/announcements/2025-02-07/tragic-evening",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Verbatim text of the @TempleAlert TUalertEMER tweet posted at the start of the incident; text confirmed via Google index",
      "url": "https://x.com/TempleAlert/status/1887715221554487308",
      "type": "official-archive"
    },
    {
      "title": "Verbatim text of the @TempleAlert TUalertEMER all-clear tweet posted approximately three hours after the initial alert",
      "url": "https://x.com/TempleAlert/status/1887750093035741440",
      "type": "official-archive"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "high",
  "tags": [
    "shooting",
    "student-victim",
    "student-suspect",
    "off-campus",
    "drug-related",
    "north-philadelphia",
    "temple-university",
    "pennsylvania"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-05-03",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-16",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}