After eight hours and a "rain of bullets", the gunman who wounded 6 policemen in the United States was handed over.

The man responsible for shooting six policemen yesterday in Philadelphia, United States, and entrenching himself to avoid his arrest, surrendered to the authorities after midnight after eight hours of resistance.

Maurice Hill, a 36-year-old man with a prolific criminal record, revealed the newspaper The Philadelphia Inquirer, was the responsible person who kept this American city in abeyance for five hours.

The episode began at 4:30 pm local time (8:30 pm GMT), when a man opened fire in the middle of a drug operation in a house, injuring six officers, who were transferred to hospitals and shortly thereafter they received a medical discharge.

"It's not a miracle not to have several agents killed," Fidadelfia Police Chief Richard Ross said shortly thereafter.

Two other police officers were stranded inside the building with three people who stopped when the rain began, which lasted for hours, according to the authorities.

After nearly five hours in the house and after dark, a special operations team managed to evacuate police and detainees.

The authorities then asked the entrapped persons to surrender and even spoke to his lawyer, baduring them that they would not hurt him.

It was only around midnight that the man finally gave up, reported the EFE news agency.

The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has been informed of the situation, according to the White House.

The first reports of the incident generated consternation in a particularly sensitive society following recent killings in El Paso (Texas) and Dayton (Ohio), which resulted in 31 deaths.

However, as the details are known, it became clear that the case of Philadelphia was different from the above-mentioned shots, which had been cut off after a police operation.

However, the mayor of Philadelphia, Democrat Jim Kenney, argued for increased arms control.

"These officers need help, they need help to control guns, they need help to keep those guns out of the hands of those people," he said. -he declares.