PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – A car believed to be connected to a shooting that injured seven people in North Philadelphia was found on Thursday, according to police.
Investigators were seen driving a car matching an earlier description provided by Philadelphia police around noon on a block of Morton Street near Washington Lane in East Germantown.
In the shooting Wednesday on the 2800 block of North Bambrey Street, police said a car, later identified through surveillance video as a 2004-2008 Acura TSX, stopped on the block just before 6:30 p.m.
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According to police, three men – two wearing all black and one wearing all white – started shooting, hitting the seven victims.
The victims were:
- A 46-year-old woman was shot in the foot
- A 29-year-old woman was shot in the thigh
- A 23-year-old man was shot in the buttocks
- A 19-year-old man was shot in the back
- A 34-year-old woman was shot in the hand
- A 16-year-old woman with an abrasion on her abdomen and another on her thigh
- An 18-year-old woman was shot in the buttocks.
All victims were treated at Temple University Hospital, with the exception of the 16-year-old, who was taken to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children. Police said the victims were in stable condition.
A Philadelphia police spokesperson did not respond to questions from CBS News Philadelphia about whether an arrest had been made in the shooting and whether any possible suspects had been apprehended.
“This is in development and as we receive additional information it will be shared,” the spokesperson wrote in an email.
