A 17-year-old girl was killed, a 16-year-old girl was shot in the face, neck and arm but is in critical, yet stable condition and a 21-year-old man is now in stable condition after 60 shots were fired in a North Philadelphia community. NBC10’s Karen Hua spoke with neighbors about the violence in the neighborhood.
A teen girl was killed while another teen girl and a young man were injured in an overnight shooting in North Philadelphia.
On Sunday at 12:39 a.m., police responded to the 600 block of Franklin Place for a report of a person with a gun. When they arrived, they found a 17-year-old girl who had been shot in the chest, a 21-year-old man who had been shot in the thigh and a 16-year-old girl who had been shot in the face, neck and arm.
There were about 60 shell casings at the scene.
The 17-year-old girl was pronounced dead at the scene. Police have not yet revealed her identity.
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The 16-year-old girl is in critical but stable condition while the young man is stable.
No arrests have been made in the shooting. Police said four masked men wearing dark clothing fled in a dark blue BMW driven by an unidentified person moments after the incident.
The vehicle was last seen traveling south on 8th Street towards Spring Garden Street, police said.
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"Last night was peaceful. I don't know what changed in a matter of seconds," Howard Cottman, a neighbor who lives around the corner from where the shooting happened, said.
Cottman said violence isn't typical in the neighborhood, but he doesn't let his sons play on the block where the shooting happened.
"Too much people and just for that specific reason. Because back there, that one day a year can turn into today," Cottman said. "That's the hard part where I'm still learning, of how to explain that to kids."
As of Sunday, Oct. 6, there were 195 reported homicides in Philadelphia so far in 2024, down 42 percent from the same time last year and the lowest number to date in the city since 2014, according to data from Philadelphia police.
As of Oct. 2, 12 percent of the 846 victims of reported shootings in Philadelphia in 2024 have been teenagers or children, according to data from the City Controller's Office.
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