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Quadruple shooting in East Germantown kills 17-year-old boy, wounds 2 other teens and a 7-year-old

Three people were injured and one was killed in the shooting.

Police work the scene of a quadruple shooting in East Germantown on Thursday.
Police work the scene of a quadruple shooting in East Germantown on Thursday.Read moreSteven M. Falk / Staff Photographer

A shooting in East Germantown Thursday night killed one teenager and injured three other youths, including a 7-year-old child, police said.

The shooting on the 5900 block of North 21st Street was reported shortly before 6 p.m. A 17-year-old boy, who was later identified as Nazeem Rains, was shot in the face and transported to Einstein Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

The other three victims — ages 7, 15, and 16 — were also transported there, where police said they are all in stable condition.

The Rains is the 13th child under the age of 18 to die in a shooting in Philadelphia this year. In total, 68 kids have been shot.

The 7-year-old was shot once in the upper thigh. The 15-year-old boy was shot twice in the head and twice in the back. The 16-year-old boy was also shot once, in the right shoulder.

Police have not identified any suspects.

Later Thursday night, three people were shot on the 4800 block of Tackawanna Street in the city’s Frankford section.

Police said a 60-year-old woman was shot once in both thighs, a 56-year-old woman was shot two times in the left thigh and once in the right thigh, and a 39-year-old man was shot once in the right hip shortly after 7:30 p.m. All were reported in stable condition at Jefferson Frankford and Temple University Hospitals.

No arrest had been made.