He said he heard about four more shots and “thought it was the end of it.” Ten minutes later, he said, police came “flying down here,” and about five minutes later he heard rapid gunfire open up right outside the house.
“I looked out the window and seen a bunch of people running.” been around here about three years so I heard it enough,” he said. “He was using my car as a shield shooting out into the street,” Eads said.Ī resident named Roger who declined to give his last name said he and his family were eating in the living room at about 8:30 p.m. Tim Eads said that on Monday night he heard fireworks, then gunshots, and saw police cars “flying by.” His wife was on the second floor “looking out the bay window and saw the shooter actually coming down this street here behind me.”Įads saw the other man with a pistol who, he said, may have been firing at the shooter. I saw no kids playing,” he said, describing a bicycle left on a corner, apparently untouched for 12 or more hours, “as if everybody understood what happened here was so horrible that for right now this is a desert, and for right now everything that we associate with celebrating Fourth of July is off.” I saw every curtain where there was a curtain pulled. Krasner said that the morning after the shooting, he saw “completely empty streets” in the traumatized neighborhood on an otherwise beautiful morning. “I was today at Independence Hall where they wrote that Constitution, and the 2nd Amendment was never intended to protect this.”
Investigators say a 21-year-old was shot six times throughout the body while a 26-year-old woman was shot multiple times in her thighs and a 33-year-old man was shot in the arm and abdomen.Īll three are in critical condition, police say.“A person walking down the city street with an AR-style rifle and shooting randomly at people while wearing a bulletproof vest with multiple magazines is a disgraceful but all-too-common situation in America,” Kenney said. Officials say police also began investigating another triple shooting on Sunday.Īccording to authorities, the shooting happened on the 300 block of E Somerset Street just after 10:00 a.m. He was transported to the hospital where he is in stable condition, police say. Hours later, a 21-year-old was shot near D Street and Wyoming Avenue, according to investigators. He was placed in stable condition at a local hospital and no arrests have been made in the case.Įarly Sunday morning, Philadelphia police officers responded to the 300 block of E Ontario Street, according to police.Īuthorities say an unidentified man in his 30s was shot once in the lower back and he was pronounced dead at a local hospital at 5:00 a.m. On Saturday morning at 2:25 a.m., police say a 31-year-old woman was grazed in the ankle on E Allegheny Avenue and transported to the hospital where she is expected to recover.Īuthorities say a 51-year-old man was shot in the leg at 9:19 a.m. Police say an arrest was made in the case and charges are pending. He was transported to a local hospital by medics and he is in critical condition. Authorities say at 11:46 p.m., a 26-year-old man was shot once in the head and multiple times throughout the body. Violence continued into the night on the 3200 block of Jasper Street. Family, friends gather to rally for community leader shot during carjacking in Oxford Circle.Nuclear gauge containing sources of radioactive material taken from vehicle in Philadelphia.3-year-old shot in finger during horseplay with older relative, police say.'Truly heroic': SEPTA Transit Officer injured in Frankford shootout released from hospital.He was taken to the hospital in a private vehicle and transferred to another medical facility where he is in stable condition, according to police. According to investigators, a 21-year-old man was shot in the arm and transported to a local hospital where he is in stable condition.Īccording to officials, a 13-year-old boy was shot once in the thigh on the 5800 block of Baltimore Avenue at 10:43 p.m. On the same night, police also say they began investigating a double shooting on the 1600 block of South 54th Street around 9:53 p.m.
Officials say a 24-year-old man, 41-year-old woman and 28-year-old man were all shot and are currently in stable condition. The next incident was a triple shooting on the 3400 block of Fairmount Avenue, according to police.
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