Girl, 12, Shot Outside Corner Store in North Philadelphia

A 12-year-old girl was shot once in the leg Tuesday evening as she walked out of a corner store in North Philadelphia, police said.

Two others, a 23-year-old man and a 31-year-old man, were also shot, police said. The 23-year-old was shot in the neck and is in critical condition. The other man suffered a bullet wound to the ankle.

The shooting apparently occurred over at least a two-block stretch, as a police spokeswoman identified the scene as the 3000 block of North Marshall Street while another police official said the girl was shot outside the bodega in the 600 block of West Clearfield Avenue.

The girl is in stable condition at St. Christopher Hospital, police said.

Her injury comes a couple weeks on the heels of shootings that left other children under the age of 13 were shot in Philadelphia neighborhoods. NBC10.com reported earlier this month that more than 20 children 12 or younger have been shot in the city since the start of 2015.

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