Two hurt as drive-by shooter fires into crowd of hundreds in Fairmount Park

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Two hurt as drive-by shooter fires into crowd of hundreds in Fairmount Park
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Officials said two people were hurt when a shooter pulled up to a gathering of - possibly more than 300 - teens gathered in Fairmount Park early Sunday, and told them to leave, before firing multiple times into the crowd.

Two people were injured in a shooting early Sunday, when a drive-by shooter fired randomly into a crowd of hundreds in Fairmount Park, police said.

According to Capt. Anthony Ginaldi of the Philadelphia Police Department, at about 1:20 a.m. on Sunday morning, about 200-300 teenagers were gathered at the Belmont Plateau, at 1800 Belmont Park Drive in Fairmount Park, when a dark-colored sedan pulled up to the group and someone in the car told the group to disburse before they opened fire on the crowd.

"There were anywhere from two hundred to three hundred plus teenagers out here in the park... This is a weekly thing as the weather here gets nicer," he told NBC10.Get Philly local news, weather forecasts, sports and entertainment stories to your inbox.Officials said that the girl showed up at a local hospital, driven by private vehicle, as officers were responding to the scene along Belmont Park Drive.

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