Three people were killed and eleven others injured on Saturday evening, June 4, during a shooting in a crowded street in Philadelphia in the Northeast of the United States, police said.
Three people were killed and eleven others injured this Saturday, June 4, during a shooting in a crowded street in Philadelphia, indicates Point. “Fourteen people, to our knowledge, were hit by gunfire and hospitalized,” Inspector DF Pace told reporters.
Who are the victims ?
The three victims are two men and a woman, “suffering from multiple gunshot wounds”. The police who went to the scene “observed several active shooters opening fire on the crowd” in the area of Philadelphia’s busy South Street, specifies franceinfo.
A police officer shot one of the shooters, but it is not known if he was hit. The man then abandoned his weapon and fled the crime scene. For now, the whereabouts of the shooters are unknownaccording The Parisian.
According to Inspector Pace, two handguns were found at the scene and the police must wait until the morning to examine the images of the surveillance cameras of the surrounding businesses which were closed on Saturday evening. The investigation is proceeding in a “smooth” manner, with “many unanswered questions”, he added, as reported Europe 1.
Since the massacre in a school in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24, which left 21 dead, there have been more than twenty shootings with several victims in the United States, according to the association Gun Violence Archive.
There are more than one shootings a day in the United States, bringing to more than 8,000 people killed by firearms since 2022, recalls Le Figaro.