A 26-year-old man was critically wounded Friday night when he was shot near an apartment building on Oxford Avenue near Large Street in Frankford, police said.
Around 6:45 the man was shot in the upper left side of his back and was taken by medics to the Albert Einstein Medical Center, Chief Inspector Scott Small said.
When officers arrived on the scene, the victim was not forthcoming with information on what led up to the shooting, police said.
However, when he was interviewed at the hospital, the man told police that he was shot during a robbery. He said two men took an undisclosed amount of cash and his cell phone.
A description of the suspects was not immediately available.
A witness was taken to speak with police in the Northeast Detective District, and no arrests were made.
Maybe they should have left him on the curb until he was forthcoming with some details about how he was shot. A policy like that enforced across the the city would certainly lower the crime rate.— poogie- How would it lower the crime rate?! Leaving somebody at the scene wounded and left to die would be a crime. So glad u don't make any laws — philsfan417
- Why would he be taken to Einstein when Aria Frankford is way closer?— gb
- Aria Frankford is a hell hole.
— bgreenage - Einstein is a trauma center, Aria Frankford is not.— Smokey
- Had some time to come up with a story.— Wilton Cabbage
- Don't snitch, keep it real. No wonder these people will never get ahead.— TyroneShoes
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- @still standing another good come back it always a double standard when its another race dont throw bricks when u live in a glass house.— teebone40
- still standing keep standing..lol they hate the truth ahahaha— noncents
- This is my old neighborhood! Good thing I got out 9 years ago. This kind of senseless criminality was unheard of in this neighborhood a mere 15 years ago.— Miss Bunny
- Just call the parole officers and ask them. The shooter most probably is out on parole.— DonQ
- Thumbs up for "still standing"— philsfan417
Dana DiFilippo has covered murder, mayhem and miscellany at the Daily News since 2000. She grew up in Delaware County and studied journalism and photography at Penn State University. E-mail tips to difilid@phillynews.com.
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Stephanie Farr has been reporting for the Daily News since 2007, covering everything from gay porn stars who entered the burglary business to moon trees, skinheads, murders and naked bike rides. She covers crime, both in the city and suburbs, and keeps clippings of bizarre Associated Press articles. Her favorite this year was the story about the drunk in Punxsutawney who gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dead opossum. E-mail tips to farrs@phillynews.com.
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Phillip Lucas joined the Daily News crime team in 2011. He grew up on the mean streets of Seattle and studied journalism and psychology at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Before landing in the City of Brotherly Love, Phillip was a reporter for The News Journal in Wilmington, Del. Email tips to lucasp@phillynews.com.
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Morgan Zalot is the newest crime reporter at the Daily News, starting in 2011 after interning at the paper twice as a Temple University journalism student. In her past stints at the DN, she covered just about everything, from drunken Phillies fans to a barber shop in a high school to a grisly murder-suicide. She’s a born-and-raised Philly girl who grew up in the Northeast. E-mail tips to zalotm@philly.com.
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