Philadelphia Shooting Incident That Kills Four People And Two Injured

Four people were killed and two were injured in a Philadelphia shooting that occurred on Monday night. The suspect of the shooting had been brought into custody, according to Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw during a late-night news conference.

Philadelphia Shooting Incident That Kills Four People And Two Injured (PHOTO: DNyuz)

The Philadelphia Shooting

It is believed that the suspect of the Philadelphia shooting was a 40-year-old man and it was found that he was just randomly shooting at the incident nor he had any connection to the victims. Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw also claimed that the suspect was wearing a bulletproof vest and a police scanner.

A second person was also taken into custody in connection with the shooting, Danielle said. However, was still unclear whether the second person was linked with the shooter, but police believe he exchanged fire with the shooter.

Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw spoke to the media at a briefing claiming that the officers chased the suspect while he continued to fire and he was arrested after surrendering in an alley.

There were three guns recovered from the scene, the suspect had including an AR-type rifle and a handgun, and a police scanner, that belonged to the suspect, she said at the conference.

Reuters reported that the three dead victims of the Philadelphia shooting are all males and their ages are ranging between 20- and 59 years old. The fourth man was believed to be between the ages of 16 to 21. The two injured children are two and 13-year-olds and both were in stable condition, Outlaw said.

Details of the July Fourth Eve gun violence were still a blur, but the shooting was reported to have started in the Kingsessing section of southwest Philadelphia, less than a mile away from the Schuylkill River that flows through Pennsylvania’s most populous city.

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A Video Footage From The Philadelphia Shooting Was Acquired That Shows The Incident Of The Crime

Video footage from the Philadelphia shooting scene of the shooting was seen several police squad cars parked near an intersection, lights flashing in the darkness, with parts of the street cordoned off with yellow and red crime-scene tape.

The shooting scene contained an area of several blocks and included around 50 spent shell casings, Outlaw said. Several vehicles were smashed by bullets, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

The Philadelphia shooting occurred a day after two people were shot to death and 28 others injured, about half of them children, in a hail of gunfire at an open-air community block party in Baltimore, Maryland. According to the Police they were still looking for the possible suspects in that shooting.

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