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Philly Police Block Streets, Focus on Home After Shooting

Police find no one in home at center of barricade situation

A barricade situation caused traffic troubles off North Broad Street in North Philadelphia Wednesday morning.

Officers blocked off several blocks near 15th and Poplar streets after a shooting suspect appeared to dart into a home shortly after 8:30 a.m., police said.

The barricade situation continued for more than an hour before police found no one in the home shortly before 10 a.m.

The shooting left a person hospitalized with a gunshot wound to the leg, police said.

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