A Philadelphia police officer died after being shot in the head Thursday afternoon in North Philadelphia, police sources told The Inquirer. Authorities said two suspects were in custody.

Sources identified the officer as Robert Wilson.

The shooting happened inside a GameStop store at 21st Street and Lehigh Avenue in the Swampoodle neighborhood, according to an officer on the scene.

The wounded officer was taken to Temple University Hospital, where Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey convened with other officials Thursday night.

Two armed men walked into the store shortly after 4:30 p.m., according to a police source, and started shooting. The officers were already inside.

Wilson was shot at least twice, the source said.

One of the assailants was shot in the leg and taken to Einstein Medical Center.

The GameStop is located in a strip mall next to the former site of Connie Mack Stadium, which was demolished in 1976.

Robinson Rodriguez, whose family owns a grocery store at 22d and Lehigh, said everyone in the store ran out to the street when they saw police cruisers flying by. They watched as an ambulance took the officer away. Around 6 p.m., police walked into the store, looking for witnesses, and told the Rodriguez family that the officer had died.

“I was hoping he was OK,” Rodriguez said. “To hear he’s dead, I don’t even know what to say.”

There have been robberies in the neighborhood in the past, Rodriguez said.

“But nothing like this,” he said. “Not people dying like this.”

The last Philadelphia officer killed in the line of duty was Moses Walker Jr., who was shot Aug. 18, 2012, after his shift in an attempted robbery near a bus stop. Walker, like Wilson, was an officer in the 22d District.

Inquirer staff writers Robert Moran, Sarah Smith, and Allison Steele contributed to this article.

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