A 14-year-old boy is facing charges after he was arrested in connection with a Saturday afternoon shooting in North Philadelphia that left one man in critical condition and another wounded, police said Sunday.
Shots rang out about 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Raymond Rosen Philadelphia Housing Authority apartment complex on 23rd Street near Diamond, according to police. When officers arrived at the complex, they found two men with gunshot wounds on the pavement. One victim, a 25-year-old man, was wounded once in the chest and once in the shoulder. That man was in critical condition, according to police.
The second victim, a 48-year-old man, was wounded in the hand and forearm. He was in stable condition, police said.
Police blocked off the courtyard at the Raymond Rosen apartments as they investigated the broad-daylight double shooting.
A short time after the shooting, police said, officers had a description of the alleged shooter and spotted the teen -- who matched that description -- leaving a house on Edgley Street near 24th, not far from the scene of the shooting. Police stopped the teen, and he was later positively identified as the shooter, police said.
On Sunday, police said a 14-year-old boy was being charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and related offenses in connection with the double shooting. The motive of the shooting was unclear, and police did not release the boy's identity because he is a juvenile.
