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A man who police say shot at officers during a standoff that lasted nearly eight hours in Philadelphia has been identified as Maurice Hill, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross told CNN. PHILADELPHIA (CNN) - Barricaded inside his home, surrounded by SWAT teams in an hourslong standoff in Philadelphia, suspect Maurice Hill called the one person he felt he could trust. "Uncle, I need your help," Hill told Shaka Johnson, who told CNN that "Uncle" is a term of endearment he hears from many of his clients. "Everybody had their own agenda, quite frankly," Johnson told CNN. Just after midnight -- nearly eight hours after the shooting began, and nearly four hours after Hill called Johnson -- Hill put down the phone and surrendered.

(CNN) - A man who police say shot at officers during a standoff that lasted nearly eight hours in Philadelphia has been identified as Maurice Hill, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross told CNN. At one point during the incident, the police commissioner said, the suspect was in contact with his girlfriend via video chat. Johnson told CNN affiliate KYW that he is Hill's former attorney. "He did not want this to end violently," Johnson told the station, adding, "I told him you got to surrender now, you know, in short you have to surrender." Johnson engaged the suspect in conversation, Ross said, but police ultimately used tear gas to force the suspect out of the house.