PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Gunfire killed 3 people & wounded at least 11 others in a popular downtown Philadelphia entertainment district late Saturday night.
Police officers were patrolling the area on South Street in downtown Philadelphia when they heard multiple gunshots & witnessed several suspects firing into a large crowd just before midnight, Police Inspector D. F. Pace said during a news conference.
An officer shot at 1 of the suspects from about 30 feet away, but it is unclear if the suspect was hit.
“You can imagine there were hundreds of individuals just enjoying South Street, as they do every single weekend, when this shooting broke out,” Pace said.
2 men a woman were among those killed in the shooting. Their names were not made public by authorities. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital spokesperson Damien Woods said, of the 10 patients who came to the hospital, 3 were dead, 6 were in stable condition & 1 had been discharged.
2 handguns were recovered, including 1 with an extended magazine, police said. No arrests have been made.
South Street is known for its entertainment venues and night life with multiple bars, restaurants and businesses. Surveillance video from a local business posted by WTXF-TV showed scores of people milling about on the sidewalks and in the street who then suddenly began to flee en masse as the gunfire began.
Pace said police expect to be able to gather “a lot of video surveillance footage” from the many businesses along the street later in the day to try to identify suspects.
Eric Walsh, closing up the outdoor seating area of a bar along the block, said the scene was “chaos.” He said he saw a young woman collapse to the ground on the corner.
“People were coming off the street with blood splatters on white sneakers & skinned knees & skinned elbows,” Walsh said. “We literally just were balling up napkins & wetting them & handing them to people.”
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