Baby among seven wounded in Philadelphia party shooting
Two children and five adults were injured in a shooting at a block party in Philadelphia Saturday, when a suspect randomly opened fire on a crowd, according to officials and local media.
21.06.2015
(AFP) Two children and five adults
were injured in a shooting at a block party in Philadelphia Saturday,
when a suspect randomly opened fire on a crowd, according to officials
and local media.
Philadelphia Police Lieutenant John Walker told NBC
affiliate WCAU that a gunman shot down a street where people were
gathered for a party.
"It appears that everybody was here for the picnic and
everybody just ran... it looks like they just randomly fired down the
street and just hit whoever was in their way," Walker said.
He said the incident was "just a terrible situation".
The news station said one of the victims was an
18-month-old baby who was grazed with a bullet in the neck. The other
was a 10-year-old boy.
The other five victims, aged 15 to 25, were taken to
hospitals after the shooting, which occurred around 10pm
in the largest city in the northeast state of Pennsylvania.
Meanwhile, in a similar incident in Detroit Saturday, one
person was killed and nine others injured when a suspect opened fire at a
party on a basketball court.
The shootings come after nine African Americans were killed
in a church in Charleston, South Carolina, by a suspected white
supremacist.
The massacre has reignited a debate about gun laws in the United States.