A mother and her daughter were shot through the closed front doors of their home on Wednesday evening around 7 p.m. in the Philadelphia neighborhood of Cobbs Creek, according to officials.
The shooting happened after a man knocked on the front door of their home on the 5700 block of Spruce Street and asked for someone by name, Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said.
When the mother and her daughter told him that no one lived at the house by that name, the man stepped off of their porch and returned to the sidewalk before, police allege, he produced a handgun.
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Small said the man allegedly fired five shots toward the house, striking the two women who were standing in the vestibule of their home behind closed doors.
"Someone fired at least five shots, from the sidewalk, and the bullets went through the screen door and the storm door, breaking out the windows of both of these doors and struck both of these victims in the vestibule," he said.
The mother, 52, was shot in the hip and her daughter, 16, was shot in the leg, according to police. Both were taken to a nearby hospital where, Small said, they were listed in stable condition.
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Small said that after the shooting, the suspected gunman fled eastbound on a bicycle.
Patrol officers in the area then saw a man on a bicycle and attempted to stop him. The man jumped off of the bike and fled down an alley on foot, Small said.
Police were able to take the man into custody and transport him to the hospital where he was, allegedly, positively identified by at least one of the shooting victims, Small told reporters.
Detectives are on the scene and hoping nearby private surveillance cameras will help as they investigate the shooting.
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