Three people, including a Philadelphia store worker and a man asleep on the sidewalk, were injured early Tuesday as someone fired shots from a passing car.
The gunfire happened just before 2 a.m. outside a store along the 2500 block of Kensington Avenue in the Kensington neighborhood, police said.
"This is a drive-by shooting," Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said.
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When police officers arrived they found a man in his 30s shot at least twice in his leg, Small said. He was listed in stable condition at the hospital.
Two other men would show up at a hospital with gunshot wounds, police said. A man in his 20s was shot in his leg and a man in his 40s was shot in the foot. Both men were listed in stable condition.
The man in his 30s was a worker at the store and was inside the mini market when he was hit through the closed metal gate of the store, police said.
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The man in his 20s was struck as he stood outside the store, police said.
The man in his 40s is experiencing homelessness and was sleeping on the sidewalk when he was struck, Small said.
Police said surveillance video shows a person in the backseat of a sedan with tinted windows firing from the car as it passed. At least five shots were fired, investigators said.
The car, later described as gold in color, was last seen going east on Sergeant Street from Kensington Avenue.
Police didn't immediately reveal a motive for the shooting.
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