6 Shot in Bloody Night

Three separate shooting accidents happened around Philadelphia on Friday.

Bullets accompanied balmy temperatures in Philadelphia on Friday evening.

As the weather reached up into the mid-70's, gunfire injured 6 people around the city in different incidents.

The violence began at 7 p.m., when a 22-year-old man was shot in the hip in Germantown. The man said he heard 5 gunshots in total.  He was able to drive himself to the hospital.

Thirty minutes later, behind the Blumberg Projects in North Philadelphia, a man was shot in the head.  Police said the shooting happened on a basketball court, and when they arrived, two others were trying to load the victim, a 20-year-old, into a car.  He was listed in critical condition.


Fifteen minutes after that, three people were shot in Cedarbrook.  An unknown gunmen pulled up to three men sitting in a parked car on the 7800 block of Provident Street and began blasting.  A 31-year-old victim was struck in the back, a 23-year-old was hit in the elbow, and and a 19-year-old took a shot in the chest.  The youngest victim is in critical condition at Einstein Hospital.

At 8:15 p.m. nearby in Cedarbrook, another shooting took place.  A 21-year-old man said a black sedan slowed down, and someone fired shots out the window, near 2300 South 76th Avenue.  The man was shot in the hand, but is in stable condition.

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