One man shot dead and at least seven are wounded including four teenagers at Philadelphia high school graduation party amid 18 shootings in the city over the weekend
- Eight people attending a Philadelphia high school graduation party were shot
- Four children between 15 and 17 were shot, as well as four adults in their 20s – including a man who died at hospital
- Shooting occurred near South 70th Street and Reed Bird Place after 10pm
- The gathering of 60 people took place near a playground
- Eight or nine shots fired and suspect is still at large
- Police were ramping up patrols as 18 shootings plagued the city this weekend
- Of the first 16 shootings there were believed to have been at least 24 victims
- Cops called the shootings ‘troubling’ and said ‘you got to get at the hearts and minds of people who want to pull out a gun’
At least eight people attending a high school graduation party have been shot – one of them fatally – police said Sunday.
Gunfire broke out around a playground in Southwest Philadelphia, resulting in four juveniles – between ages 15 and 17 – being injured, ‘mostly to the legs, maybe one to the arm’.
Four adults, all said to be in their 20s, were also caught up in the incident that occurred shortly after 10pm near South 70th Street and Reed Bird Place.
One of them, a man, was confirmed dead at the hospital.
Gunfire broke out in Southwest Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Sunday resulting in four juveniles injured
Four adults, all said to be in their 20s, were also caught up in the incident shortly after 10pm
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross said there was no suggestion of an altercation at the gathering of around 60 people prior to the shooting.
Police don’t know if the culprit or culprits left on foot or in a vehicle but they are trying to obtain surveillance footage.
There were about eight or nine shots fired the cop said, adding that they believe the victims were close together when they were wounded. It unclear if any of them were celebrating their own graduation.
It was initially reported that at least five people had been shot – including two men, a woman and a child – as a witness said several bullets were fired.
Law enforcement was searching for suspects Sunday and no one had been arrested. A description of the suspect had not been released.
‘What you got to get at is the hearts and minds of people who want to pull out a gun and fire at a group of 60 people,’ CBS reported Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross said. ‘That’s something that’s even more troubling.’
The shooting took place around a playground near South 70th Street and Reed Bird Place
Children affected between ages 15 and 17 were injured ‘mostly to the legs’ or the arm
Police were ramping up patrols as about 18 shootings plagued the city this weekend. Three of those victims died. Of the first 16 shootings there were believed to have been at least 24 victims.
In North Philadelphia, a 33-year-old man was shot six times before 7pm on Sunday at North Fourth and Wingohocking Streets.
Sunday morning a 22 year-old man was shot 10 times on the tourist-heavy South Street by 10th Street.
Saturday morning two men were shot and survived after being gunned down on the busy road by Fourth Street.
‘What you got to get at is the hearts and minds of people who want to pull out a gun and fire at a group of 60 people,’ CBS reported Philadelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross said
On Saturday a road rage incident on the Schuylkill Expressway, near the 26th Street ramp left one person in critical condition.
The youngest victim of the shootings this weekend was a 16-year-old girl who is expected to survive.
But three have died -including a man injured on North 20th Street in Tioga, a man wounded on Walnut Lane in Germantown; and 38-year-old mother-of-five, April Coleman, who was shot in the head Saturday afternoon on Ridge Avenue in North Philadelphia.
A 38-year-old mother-of-five, April Coleman, was shot in the head and killed Saturday afternoon on Ridge Avenue in North Philadelphia