Daily News | Four homicides and Penn’s Landing triple shooting cap an extremely violent Philly weekend
The gun violence occurred across the city, from South Philadelphia to Lawncrest, and brought Philadelphia’s death toll to more than 180 for the year. That figure was tracking behind the record pace of killings in 2021. The pace in 2022, however, is 50% above the year-to-date average of homicides for the past decade.Just before 11 p.m. Saturday, a 32-year-old man was shot repeatedly in an alley behind the 7200 block of North 20th Street in Logan. At 1:40 a.m.
Two girls were shot in the foot and a boy was shot in the ribs shortly before 10 p.m. Saturday at Penn’s Landing, police said. The teens were in stable condition. Police said the gunfire interrupted festivities in the plaza, though they could not say how many people were in the vicinity when shots rang out. They attributed the violence to an argument involving another teen. No arrests were made as of early afternoon Sunday.
In addition, two 18-year-old men were hospitalized with multiple bullet wounds after being shot around 11 p.m. on the 1400 block of South 23rd Street, according to police. Around the same time, a 37-year-old man was wounded near 10th and Poplar. After midnight, two men were shot in separate incidents in Swampoodle.
In only one of those shootings did police identify a possible motive: an armed robbery. So far, no arrests have been made.
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