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Philly triple shooting leaves 2 men critically wounded

The gunfire was reported on the 5200 block of Market Street, a commercial strip with a Market-Frankford Line elevated station.

Crime scene tape at the intersection at 52nd and Market Streets in West Philadelphia where three men were wounded in a shooting early Wednesday.
Crime scene tape at the intersection at 52nd and Market Streets in West Philadelphia where three men were wounded in a shooting early Wednesday.Read moreJESSICA GRIFFIN / Staff Photographer

Three men were wounded, two critically, in a shooting early Wednesday on Market Street in West Philadelphia, police said.

Police recovered a weapon at the scene but did not offer any information about the victims’ relationship, if any, to one another.

Numerous 911 calls reporting gunfire about 12:20 a.m. sent police to the 5200 block of Market Street, a commercial strip and the site of a Market-Frankford Line elevated station.

Responding officers took the three victims in patrol cars to Penn Presbyterian Hospital, police said.

There, a 30-year-old man who had been shot in the face and a 29-year-old man with a leg wound were reported in critical condition, police said. A 29-year-old man who was shot in the left leg was in stable condition.

No arrests were reported and police have not disclosed if they had established a motive in the shooting.