PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia Police believe that a car used by the gunmen who shot nine people Saturday night on a busy street had also been driven to and from the scene of another shooting nearby last month, officials said Monday.
Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore said detectives were able to make the link after viewing surveillance video of both incidents — Saturday’s shooting in the Kensington neighborhood at Kensington and Allegheny avenues, in which at least two gunmen fired more than 40 shots toward a crowd, and a shooting around the corner, on the 3100 block of Kensington, on Oct. 7, in which a 27-year-old man was critically wounded.
Vanore did not say if police believe the same shooters were involved in both crimes, or whether there was a clear motive linking the two cases. But in both instances, he said, “there are at least two occupants of that vehicle that fire weapons.” He described the car as a dark-colored Honda Accord made between 2003 and 2007.
