Violent span in Philly: Seven shot, 1 stabbed

From late Friday night into Saturday afternoon, seven people, including three teens, were shot and an eighth person was stabbed in seven incidents throughout the city. None of the injuries were fatal.

Most of the violence occurred in a span of about two hours.

Shortly after 11:30 p.m. Friday, a 31-year-old man was shot once in the left leg while outside on the 2000 block of Judson Street in North Philadelphia. A Philadelphia Housing Authority officer who was walking in the area and heard gunshots transported the victim to Hahnemann University Hospital in stable condition, Philadelphia police said.

Around that same time, police responded to a shooting on the 800 block of Marcella Street in Summerdale, where they found a 16-year-old boy hit once in the lower back. Police took him to Einstein Medical Center in stable condition.

About 11:46 p.m. Friday, two 18-year-old males were shot and wounded in a double shooting on the 3900 block of Glendale Street in Juniata Park. The victims were sitting on steps outside when two men in hoodies came up from an alley and started shooting at them, an East Detectives supervisor said Saturday. One victim ran a few blocks away and called police.

Officers took the victims to Temple University Hospital, where one of them — shot three times, in the groin, back, and leg — was in critical condition, and the second, shot once in his left forearm, was in stable condition.

About 12:19 a.m. Saturday, a gunman fired several shots at a vehicle on the 400 block of East Loudon Street in Feltonville, the East Detectives supervisor said. A 26-year-old man who was sitting in the vehicle was grazed by a bullet in his upper left arm. The victim refused medical treatment and told police that he had a dispute over money with the alleged 24-year-old male shooter, who was taken into custody, the supervisor said. It was not immediately known Saturday if the suspect would be charged.

At 1:27 a.m. Saturday, a 22-year-old man was shot once in his left leg while outside near Island and Woodland Avenues in Southwest Philadelphia. He was taken by medics to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in stable condition. Before he was shot, the victim had been in a dispute with another man over a woman at the Happy Inn bar on Main Street in Darby, 6ABC reported. The victim then walked to Philadelphia and was followed by the other man, who then shot him, police said. Officers tried to chase the gunman, but he got away, according to 6ABC.

About 1:50 a.m. Saturday in Center City, a 52-year-old man was stabbed once in his left abdomen while outside on the 300 block of South 12th Street, just south of Spruce. He was taken by medics to Jefferson University Hospital in stable condition. No further information was available.

The violence continued Saturday afternoon when, at about 1:30, a 40-year-old man was critically injured after being shot three times in the abdomen and once in his left leg while outside on the 4200 block of Tackawanna Street in Frankford. He was taken by medics to Temple University Hospital.

Police were seeking suspects in all of the cases except for the Feltonville shooting.

The shootings of the three teens occurred a day after two 15-year-old boys were shot at a South Philadelphia gas station. One of them, Rasul Benson, died. Surveillance video from the Gulf station on Passyunk Avenue near 25th Street showed two shooters — one who emerged from the backseat of a car and another who remained there and fired.