PHILADELPHIA — Four people were killed and eight others were wounded by gunfire in Philadelphia on Wednesday, including four victims in a quadruple shooting in Mantua.
A 20-year-old man was shot multiple times on West Erie Avenue in North Philadelphia at about 2 p.m. and was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
Moments before, police responded to a double homicide in Kensington. A 45-year-old man was shot seven times in the body and died at Temple University Hospital. A 44-year-old man was shot in the head and died at the scene.
A fourth person was found dead Wednesday around 8 p.m., when homeowners on the 2300 block of Bailey Terrace in South Philadelphia came home to find a man on the floor who had been shot in the chest, police said.
Wednesday's shootings occurred as the city continues to see elevated levels of gun violence since 2020. There had been 188 homicides so far this year as of Tuesday, according to police — a 9% decrease compared to the same date in 2021, but more than the 147 homicides by this time in 2020.
Gun violence across the city Wednesday also included a quadruple shooting in Mantua. At about 7 p.m., while walking on the 3500 block of Fairmount Avenue, a 19-year-old woman was shot twice in her right side, a 34-year-old woman was hit twice in right leg and a 59-year-old man was shot three times in his right leg. A 19-year-old male was shot multiple times in his right side,. All of the victims were brought to Penn Presbyterian, police said. Three were in stable condition, but the teenage male was in critical condition.
Police told reporters on the scene that the four victims were walking to a prom send-off party when they were shot, possibly by someone riding by on a bicycle, according to FOX29.
Earlier Wednesday on the 4600 block of Leiper Street in Frankford, a 44-year-old woman was shot in an apartment by someone she knew at about 6 p.m. and was taken to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital in critical condition, police said.
A 18-year-old man was shot once in each foot on West Rockland Street in the Logan neighborhood just before 5 p.m. He was in stable condition at Temple University Hospital.
A 55-year-old man was shot in his left ankle while at West Ontario Street at 8 a.m. Wednesday in North Philadelphia. He was in stable condition at Temple.
A 19 year-old was shot once in his right thigh on West Spencer Avenue in East Germantown shortly after 1 a.m. Wednesday and taken to Einstein Hospital, listed in stable condition.
