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Pickup basketball game on Montgomery County court ends with 2 shot

Police found two young men from Philadelphia bleeding from gunshot wounds at 1 Bala Plaza in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, on June 15, 2023

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A pickup basketball game on a Main Line court ended with two men hospitalized with gunshot wounds Thursday night.

Lower Merion Township police responded to the parking lot of 1 Bala Plaza, off St. Asaphs Road, in Bala Cynwyd a little after 9 p.m. to find two Philadelphia residents bleeding, township police said.

The injured men -- both in their early 20s -- were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment for what appeared to be non-life-threatening gunshot wounds, police said.

Detectives discovered that the shooting took place at the conclusion of a pickup basketball game, police said.

The search for the shooter continued Friday and police said there was "no continuing threat to the public." However, they were looking for a vehicle seen fleeing the scene.

"A vehicle possibly involved in this incident was seen leaving the area," police wrote. "It is described as a silver 4 door sedan."

Anyone with information on the shooting was asked to call Lower Merion Township police at 610-645-1000.

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