Five injured in four shooting incidents in Philadelphia

By Julie Zauzmer, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Posted: June 10, 2012

In a violent night in Philadelphia, police are investigating four shootings on Friday evening and early Saturday morning that left five victims hospitalized.

Police are investigating. No arrests have been made.

The shootings began around 5:30 p.m. on Friday, when two men were attacked on the 3200 block of Authority Terrace in East Falls. The victims told police that they were standing on the sidewalk when a man approached on foot and fired at them. The older of the two victims, a 34-year-old man, was shot three times in his legs and was listed in stable condition, while the younger man, 28, was shot five times in his legs and buttocks and listed in critical condition.

Police did not name a suspect or a probable motive.

At around 10:50 p.m., a 27-year-old man told police that he was standing with his sisters in front of his home on the 6700 block of Linmore Avenue in the Elmwood section of Southwest Philadelphia when he was shot several times in the stomach. The offender was a 20-year-old man known to the victim, police said.

In another incident, a 25-year-old man told a police officer at Mercy Philadelphia Hospital that he had been shot once in the back by an unknown attacker at Arch and N. Paxon Streets in Southwest Philadelphia. He was transferred from Mercy to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was listed in critical but stable condition.

A final victim was shot by an unknown attacker at around 2:45 a.m. on the 3800 block of Old York Road in Hunting Park. The victim, a 39-year-old woman, was listed in critical condition suffering from gunshot wounds to her thigh and buttocks.

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