A wild shootout between police and three robbery suspects in North Philadelphia Thursday landed two suspects in the hospital and a third on the run, according to police.
Investigators say around 5 p.m. undercover narcotics officers had the area of 21st and Dauphin Streets under surveillance when they were approached by a man who said he’d just been robbed. Police went after the two robbery suspects who they say pulled out a gun and fired at police, according to investigators.
Police fired back.
Police shot one of the suspects twice in the leg. A second suspect, who was shot in the back, ran into a get-away car where a driver was waiting.
Both those suspects were later arrested, police said.
Gunfire continued to spill onto 21st and York Streets, where dozens of bullet casings littered the ground.
The getaway car rammed several vehicles including a couple of unmarked police vans.
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The suspect’s car was later found abandoned less than a mile away on the 1600 block of Toronto, with bullet holes and shot out windows stained with blood.
Police recovered a 32-caliber gun believed to have been used by one of the suspects in the shootout, along with five casings from the gun.
As of Friday morning police were still searching for the driver of the getaway car.
The shootout rattled the neighborhood.
A 6-year-old girl was in her bedroom when she heard the gunfire.
“I heard gunshots and they sounded like fireworks and I lay down on the floor,” she said.
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