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Shelter in Place at Philadelphia School as Police Search for Quadruple Shooting Suspect

Police continue search for suspect in quadruple shooting

Philadelphia Police placed a Shelter in Place order on an elementary school due to a barricade situation nearby Friday morning.

Students and staff at John H. Webster Elementary School along Frankford Avenue in Kensington were told to stay put around 10 a.m. until around noon, said police.

The order came as SWAT responded to a home about two blocks away where a possibly armed man -- wanted for a quadruple shooting -- was believed to be inside, said Philadelphia Police.

Investigators named the suspect as Ernesto Almodovar, 23, who is wanted in the shooting of four people outside  a North Philadelphia corner store -- including a 12-year-old girl who was hit with bullet fragments -- on Aug. 30, said police.

Officers eventually entered the home around 11:30 a.m. and came out with no one as it turned out none of the four people inside were the suspect.

No word on where the suspect could be.

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