North Philadelphia shooting leaves 16-year-old girl, 6 others injured, police say
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Seven people, including a 16-year-old girl, were injured after a shooting in North Philadelphia on Wednesday, police said.
The shooting happened just before 6:30 p.m. on the 2800 block of North Bambrey Street. Police said a vehicle pulled up at the intersection of North Bambrey and Somerset streets and at least one shooter got out of the car and began firing shots.
Police said the 16-year-old was taken to St. Christopher's Hospital for Children and the six other people were taken to Temple University Hospital.
The 16-year-old was grazed in the abdomen and the right thigh in the shooting, according to police.
A 19-year-old man was shot in the left leg, a 31-year-old woman was shot once in the left hand and a 23-year-old man was struck once in the right buttock, authorities said.
A 47-year-old woman was shot once in the left thigh and a 29-year-old woman was shot in the right thigh, police said.
Authorities said an 18-year-old woman was shot once, but didn't specify where she was struck.
All seven people injured in the shooting are in stable condition, police said. Investigators recovered more than a dozen shell casings from the scene.
Police said they have surveillance video of a dark colored four-door sedan they're searching for with at least three suspects inside. It was last seen heading eastbound on Somerset Street and had yellow tape or plastic securing the trunk, according to authorities.
The motive for the shooting is unclear, but police believe someone in the crowd of people who was shot was targeted.
No arrests have been made so far, police said.
"We do have additional police officers out there on the streets," Chief Inspector Scott Small said. "We're going to have additional police in this area because of what happened, but when the weather gets really warm in the summer, you see a lot more people out, and that's when you see more people struck by stray gunfire, so yeah, it's very concerning to us."
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to contact Philadelphia police.
