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16-year-old critically wounded in shooting on SEPTA subway platform in Center City

Around 9:30 p.m., the teen was shot on the westbound platform at 15th Street Station, police said.

A SEPTA transit police officer walks up stairs from a platform where a 15-year-old boy was shot in the head on the westbound platform at 15th Street Station near City Hall in Philadelphia on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024.
A SEPTA transit police officer walks up stairs from a platform where a 15-year-old boy was shot in the head on the westbound platform at 15th Street Station near City Hall in Philadelphia on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2024.Read moreElizabeth Robertson / Staff Photographer
    by Robert Moran
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» Update: Prosecutors said Friday that two teens have been arrested and will be charged with the shooting.

A 16-year-old boy was hospitalized in extremely critical condition after he was shot in the head on a SEPTA subway platform Thursday night in Center City, police said.

About 9:30 p.m., a SEPTA transit police officer reported a shooting with an unresponsive victim lying on the ground of the westbound platform at 15th Street Station.

Police rushed the teen, who was carrying a high school identification card, to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

Chief Inspector Scott Small said the teen lives in Northeast Philadelphia.

SEPTA transit police stopped two people fleeing from the platform, and based on surveillance video, they believe of them is the shooter.

Police found six spent shell casings on the platform, Small said. Police also found a handgun wrapped in a jacket that had been ditched underground.

The motive for the shooting was not immediately known, Small said.