PHILADELPHIA — The bullets that struck two officers during Philadelphia’s Independence Day celebrations were fired from the same gun — and came from outside the event site, potentially fired from up to a mile or more away, police said Wednesday.
A host of other questions remained unanswered on the second day after the shooting, which caused the evacuation of the Benjamin Franklin Parkway just as the Fourth of July fireworks show was beginning.
Police still don’t know who fired the shots Monday night, where the person fired from, or whether the shots were aimed into the air in so-called celebratory gunfire, Chief Inspector Frank Vanore said at a news conference.
