Philadelphia police said a 17-year-old girl was killed and two more people were injured, including another teenager, after a group of young men fired several shots at a party overnight.
Inspector DF Pace said the shooting happened shortly after 12:30 a.m. Sunday in a housing project on the 600 block of North Franklin Place in North Philadelphia.
Multiple 911 calls were made reporting the shooting. At the scene, Pace said the three victims were found in a courtyard before being taken to Jefferson University Hospital.
Among those victims is a 17-year-old girl, who was shot in the chest and died in hospital.
A 16-year-old girl was shot in the face but is in stable condition, and a 21-year-old man is also stable after being shot in the leg, Pace said.
“It appears that four young men, possibly all or at least some of them were young people themselves, dressed in black and wearing masks and gloves, came to this courtyard where some kind of party or gathering was going on,” Pace said of the suspected shooters .
He added that investigators are unsure whether the shooters specifically targeted the three victims.
Seven spent shell casings were found in the courtyard and dozens more were found in the area where police say the suspects ran as they fled the scene. Police said the getaway car used by the suspected gunmen was a stolen black BMW that may have had bullet holes in it.
This is a development story. CBS News Philadelphia will provide more details as new information becomes available.
