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Twenty-one-year-old Zhontay Capers was arrested by plainclothes SEPTA police officers less than a mile from the scene of the shooting, officials said. No weapon was recovered from her person.
Authorities said Route 23 driver Bernard Gribbin was shot in the torso and throat around 10:30 a.m. near Germantown and East Abottsford avenues.
He later died from his wounds at Einstein Medical Center.
Gribbin, a 48-year-old Abington resident, was a 12-year employee of the transit authority, a SEPTA spokesperson told Daily Voice.
Mayor Jim Kenney said he was "appalled" by the killing and District Attorney Larry Krasner called Gribbin's murder "inexcusable."
In addition to murder, Capers was charged with firearms offenses, reckless endangerment, and related counts, court records show. Her bail was denied at her arraignment early Friday, Oct. 27.
She is due back in court for a hearing on Nov. 13.
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