The streets of Philadelphia echoed with the sounds of sirens this weekend as gun violence left multiple victims, including teenagers, wounded in separate incidents across the city. According to NBC Philadelphia, two shootings occurred on Sunday evening, with the first taking place at approximately 6:17 p.m. on the unit block of North Frazier Street in West Philadelphia, leaving a man injured and hospitalized. Hours later, at around 8:24 p.m., another individual, a woman, was shot on the 2100 block of Cecil B. Moore Avenue in North Philadelphia and was listed in stable condition upon her arrival at the hospital.
The weekend, fraught with violence, began on Saturday night when two teenagers were victims of gunfire. As reported by 6abc.com, a 15-year-old boy was shot in the leg on the 800 block of Brill Street in Summerdale just after 7 p.m., while a 16-year-old girl suffered a gunshot wound to the leg around 8:25 p.m. at the Fox Chase Rec Center. Both teens are currently in stable condition, with no arrests made in relation to either shooting incident.
Further details on the shooting at Fox Chase Recreation Center, as indicated by CBS News Philadelphia, describe the victim as a juvenile girl who was rushed to Jefferson-Torresdale Hospital by medics. While her condition was noted as stable, the police have not revealed the girl’s approximate age. The motive remains unclear, and the Philadelphia Police Department’s Shooting Investigation Group is handling the ongoing investigation…