Three people are dead and another was transported to the hospital after a shooting took place at a home in Northeast Philadelphia on Friday afternoon, according to police.
After 3:35 p.m. police responded to reports of gunshots fired on the 5900 block of Palmetto.
When police arrived, they found three people shot who were all pronounced dead at the scene by medics, police said. One person was found on the sidewalk, one on the porch of a home and one inside the home.
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John Stanford with the police clarified in a press conference that a short time after they responded to Palmetto Street, they received news that a 16-year-old showed up at a hospital suffering from a gunshot wound to the stomach. Police said at the time the person was in stable condition.
Police obtained information about the vehicle that dropped the 16-year-old off, and police later found the vehicle, at which point two people were taken into custody and a gun was recovered.
The people in the vehicle police believe were the ones who could have possibly dropped the 16-year-old off at the hospital.
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The victims are between the ages of 15-20. The people taken into custody are in the same age range, police said.
Police are still in the process of finding information and witnesses, but they think whatever happened took place inside the home.
Stanford described the incident as frustrating.
“We can’t lose hope, because if we lose hope then everybody in this city will lose hope,” he said when asked how he felt responding to yet another deadly shooting.
At this time there is no further information on motive or details on whether the 16-year-old shot is connected to those found dead on Palmetto Street.
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