The 21-year-old man was shot multiple times after three men got out of a nearby car and opened fire, police said.
A man who was shot multiple times in an ambush in Lower Merion on Thursday night crashed his car into a SEPTA bus while trying to escape the gunfire, police said.
Around 10:30 p.m., the 21-year-old man was inside a car at the corner of City Avenue and Presidential Boulevard when three men got out of another car and opened fire on his vehicle, police said. The victim pulled his car away to try to escape the bullets and crashed into a SEPTA bus, police said.He then got out of the car and ran to the parking lot of a Longhorn Steakhouse nearby, where police later found him with gunshot wounds to his arms and legs.
The Route 65 SEPTA bus he struck sustained significant damage, and a passenger on the bus was injured and taken to Lankenau for treatment, a SEPTA spokesperson said. Police found 25 spent shell casings from two different caliber guns at the scene of the shooting, police said. No arrests have been made and no weapons have been recovered.
Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Philadelphia Police Department’s shooting investigation group at 215-686-8270 or to submit a tip through the department’s tip line at 215-686-8477.
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