Teen shot in S. Philly suspected in carjacking of officer's daughter

Police believe that one of three people wounded Tuesday night in a South Philadelphia street shooting may be one of the two teens who carjacked a police officer's daughter earlier in the day.

The shooting victims, ages 17, 27, and 39, were standing in front of a rowhouse on the 500 block of Moore Street about 10:50 p.m. when three young men approached and opened fire, the South Detective Division announced Wednesday. All three suffered leg wounds and were taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where they were in stable condition.

Police said that the shooters appeared to be in their late teens or early 20s, and that the attack was for a gang-related dispute over neighborhood territory.

Police said they were investigating whether the 17-year-old was one of two teens who approached a woman at Front and Morris Streets in Pennsport about 12:30 a.m. Tuesday and took her 2007 Mazda3 at gunpoint.

The victim said the teens came up on bicycles, and one asked for her phone number, police said. The woman briefly spoke to one of the teens, who then pulled out a small black semiautomatic gun, police said.

After the teens made off with her car, the woman, the daughter of a police officer, acquired the Mazda's location by tracking her iPad, which was inside the vehicle, police said.

Shortly afterward, officers spotted the Mazda at a red light at 57th Street and Springfield Avenue in Kingsessing. They pulled the vehicle over and ordered the occupants to show their hands, but the driver sped off, police said. A short while later, the car crashed into several parked cars on the 4800 block of Springfield Avenue in West Philadelphia, and the teens fled.

Inside the Mazda, police found a black 9mm handgun and a dark hooded sweatshirt worn by one of the carjackers. The gun was reported stolen March 29, police said.

While one of the suspected carjackers was in the hospital, South Detectives said Wednesday that police have an identity for the second alleged carjacker and are looking for him.