Two teen boys hospitalized in separate shootings Sunday night
A 14-year-old and 15-year-old are in stable condition.
Two teenagers are in stable condition after they were shot in separate incidents overnight.
A 14-year-old boy and his father were wounded by stray bullets while talking with friends on the 4700 block of Vista Street in Holmesburg, police Inspector D.F. Pace told reporters at the scene. A 15-year-old boy was shot hours later while sitting with family members outside his South Philadelphia home on the 1900 block Woodstock Street.
All three are in stable condition. No arrests or motives for either shooting were immediately known.
The 14-year-old and his father suffered gunshot wounds to the abdomen just before 6:30 p.m. Sunday, police told reporters. The boy was transported to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children and the father to Jefferson Torresale Hospital, according to officials. Police recovered 13 spent bullet casings from the scene.
In South Philadelphia, police said that they found the 15-year-old boy lying on the street just before 1 a.m. Monday with two gunshot wounds to the leg and that he was taken to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
On Saturday night, another 14-year-old boy was shot twice in the hip inside the Cecil B. Moore subway station. Three people are in custody, including the suspected shooter. The victim was transported to Temple University Hospital, where he was placed in stable condition.
So far this year, 99 children have been shot, according to data gathered by the City Controller, or around 12% of all shooting victims. This is on par with last year’s counts, but still well under the more than 217 children who were shot in 2022.