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The Philadelphia Inquirer
The Philadelphia Inquirer
National
Ellie Rushing

69-year-old man shot in Philadelphia recalls how the night went from party to mayhem

PHILADELPHIA — As a mass shooting erupted on South Street in Philadelphia on Saturday night, killing three people and wounding 11 others, the scene was so chaotic that one victim didn’t realize he’d been shot until he saw blood running down his leg.

William “Rusty” Crowell, 69, suffered a graze wound to the back of his left leg after gunmen began firing at each other as he stood outside a music venue.

“I feel all right, but I feel like I am kind of in shock, in such disbelief this has happened to me,” he said Sunday. An approximately 1-inch-long bullet-shaped crater remains in the back of his left knee.

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