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Shooting leaves one teen dead and 4 people wounded, including two SEPTA bus passengers struck by stray bullets

The shooting occurred around 3:45 p.m. at the intersection of Godfrey and Ogontz Avenues, police said.

Five people were shot, one fatally, when gunfire erupted at a bus stop at Godfrey and Ogontz Avenues in Philadelphia. Two women on the bus, which eventually stopped at 16th Street and Limekiln Pike, were hit by stray bullets, police said.
Five people were shot, one fatally, when gunfire erupted at a bus stop at Godfrey and Ogontz Avenues in Philadelphia. Two women on the bus, which eventually stopped at 16th Street and Limekiln Pike, were hit by stray bullets, police said.Read moreJessica Griffin / Staff Photographer
    by Robert Moran
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A teenager was killed and two others were injured in a street shooting that also left two passengers on a SEPTA bus wounded by stray gunfire Monday afternoon in the city’s Ogontz section, police said.

The shooting occurred around 3:45 p.m. at a bus stop at the intersection of Godfrey and Ogontz Avenues, Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said.

About 20 people were at the stop boarding a Route 6 bus when two people approached a 17-year-old, later identified as Dayemen Taylor, from behind and began shooting, Bethel said. Police took Taylor to Albert Einstein Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

Two other boys — identified as being 15 and 14-years-old— are in stable condition at Einstein, where they are being treated for graze wounds.

As the shooting started, the bus pulled away and stopped at 16th Street and Limekiln Pike, Bethel said.

A 50-year-old woman and 49-year-old woman on the bus were also struck by stray gunfire, Bethel said. Both women are in stable condition at Einstein, according to police.

Police said they found around 40 spent shell casings at Godfrey and Ogontz.

The two shooting suspects were still at large.

City Councilmember Cindy Bass, whose district includes the shooting scene, said in a statement that she was “heartbroken and outraged.”

“Once again, we see a life senselessly lost and others injured in yet another brazen and disgraceful act of gun violence. I am constantly thinking about the incredible loss these senseless deaths leave behind,” Bass said. “We need to develop proactive steps to ensure these incidents no longer occur.”

SEPTA spokesperson Andrew Busch said in a statement: “All SEPTA customers should be able to feel safe while they are traveling. We provide 700,000 passenger trips a day, and incidents like this are extremely rare. But even one is unacceptable, and SEPTA Police will continue working closely with Philadelphia Police and other law enforcement partners on measures to enhance safety and security on our transit system.”

It was the second shooting in as many days involving a SEPTA bus.

Late Sunday night, a 27-year-old man was shot and killed after an argument broke out on a SEPTA bus in Oxford Circle late Sunday night.

The shooting happened after the victim, Sawee Kofa of Lawndale, got off the bus at Castor Avenue and Van Kirk Street.

No arrests were reported in that case.