News at 11 00. Tonight at 11 00 Philadelphia Police are on the hunt for a gunman after a little boy is shot. Good evening and thanks for joining us, im dawn timoney. The innocent sixyearold outside with his family on fall night shot in the shoulder in north philadelphia. Brad sattin has the latest. Reporter police are in the process of clearing up the scene. A few hours ago a sixyearold shoulder. Hot in the left hes expected to survive, rushed to the hospital and tonight the search goes on for the gunman. They obviously want to get him off the streets. This all playing out just before 8 oclock at 24th and norris here in north philadelphia. The sixyearold boy outside with his father and brother. That were just a few feet from their home when police say four shots rang out. The boy was hit. He ran inside the house. And the family then realized he was bleeding badly. Police got to the scene pretty quickly, took him to Temple University hospital. Initially the boy was in Critical Condition
Reporter police are in the process of clearing up the scene. A few hours ago a sixyearold shoulder. Hot in the left hes expected to survive, rushed to the hospital and tonight the search goes on for the gunman. They obviously want to get him off the streets. This all playing out just before 8 oclock at 24th and norris here in north philadelphia. The sixyearold boy outside with his father and brother. That were just a few feet from their home when police say four shots rang out. The boy was hit. He ran inside the house. And the family then realized he was bleeding badly. Police got to the scene pretty quickly, took him to Temple University hospital. Initially the boy was in Critical Condition but has since been upgraded to stable and transferred to Saint Christophers Hospital this all playing out on a beautiful evening, a busy street with kids here. Just across the street is a school playground. A car was also hit with a shot. No one else was hurt. It doesnt appear to be any sort of a s
The night before that theres all this drug activity constantly going on. Reporter the badly wounded officer was rushed to a hospital. Residents of the apartment house were evacuated. S. W. A. T. Officers surrounded the building. A state Police Helicopter flew overhead as a loud flash bang was fired. The hope it would startle and distract the attackers. S. W. A. T. Officers moved quickly. Several women and a plan were taken into custody. The man described as the suspect in the shooting was put inside this Sharon Hill Police car and driven from the scene. As the operation wound down and officers departed, grateful folcroft residents applauded. If you got a heart to shoot the cops that are protecting us you would hurt any innocent one. Thats what im looking at. Yeah, children. We got children, we got innocent citizens live around here and if you got the ought to shoot at a cop what would you have done to us. Reporter we heard that from a number of residents and neighbors today. If someone
Neighbors tell us has seen increasing drug activity. About 10 00 oclock this morning our officers were dispatched for some subjects smoking people thought they were smoking narcotics in the rear of a 1528 address on elmwood avenue. This is an apartment complex. Reporter witness tells fox 29, the first officer on the scene identified as 25yearold Christopher Dorman former folcroft firefighter, a Police Officer for just the past year or so, confronted a man she said was smoking weed. If he was smoking weed the cop know how to deal with it. You know what im saying . All of a sudden it went from him saying something to him to pow pow pow pow pow. Guns being shot. And my brother and myself we was like oh, my god, he shot the cop. Reporter dorman was race to do mercy fitzgerald hospital then on to penn press we attorney with gunshot wounds to his face, allegation and. He was conscious and his vest may have been saved his life. Plenty of neighbors heard the incident play out. I heard what sou
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