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.