Series Of Sunday Shootings Bookends Another Violent Weekend In Philadelphia That Sees More Than 30 Victims
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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) It’s been another violent weekend in Philadelphia with more than 30 shooting victims, including nine after 2:30 p.m. Sunday. This comes after the city surpassed 300 homicides Friday.
A series of shootings on Sunday has left nine people injured, including three teenagers.
On the 1600 block of West Seltzer Street in North Philadelphia around 5:30 p.m., police said a 34-year-old man was shot several times throughout his body. He was taken to Temple University Hospital and placed in critical condition, according to police. There have been no arrests.
3 teens among 10 hurt in shootings across Philadelphia on Sunday, police say
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Police say two teens, 15 and 19, were injured in a triple shooting Sunday afternoon in Kingsessing.
KINGSESSING - Police say nearly a dozen people, including three teens, were injured by gunfire on Sunday in shootings across Philadelphia.
Officers in Kingsessing drove a 15-year-old boy to Penn Presbyterian Hospital with gunshot wounds to the legs, according to authorities. A 29-year-old man also showed up at the hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg.
Police say the shooting happened on the 5500 block of Malcolm Street just before 3 p.m. A 19-year-old who was grazed in the knee during the shooting refused medical treatment, according to police.
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Twenty-one days into the new year and already Philadelphia is ahead of last year s record pace in homicides and shootings.
Homicides are currently up 10% and shootings are up a whopping 37%. Police say 13 of the victims are children.
An Uber Eats driver was among those shot on Wednesday afternoon on the 4700 block of Chestnut Street around 4 p.m.
Police say the driver was on a delivery with a male associate when they got caught up in a road rage incident with the driver of a white Dodge Ram pick-up truck. The Dodge driver then got out and fired 11 shots into the victim s car, police said.