A 17-year-old boy who was shot in the nose in Kingsessing Thursday night was able to talk with police and identify his shooter, police said.
The teen was shot at 54th Street and Chester Avenue just after 6:30 p.m. and was able to run about three blocks to 54th Street and Beaumont Avenue, where police found him, Chief Inspector Scott Small said.
Small said the bullet went through the teen’s nose and was lodged in his skull, but he managed to speak with police.
“A person was apprehended, and the victim himself positively identified the shooter, even though he’s shot and the bullet’s in his head,” Small said.
The suspect, who police said is a 52-year-old man, was taken into custody, and the victim was taken by police to Mercy Philadelphia Hospital before being transferred to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He was listed in critical condition Thursday night.
Small said the suspect was seen running into a house on 54th Street after the shooting. Police did not recover a weapon at the scene, so they were working to obtain a warrant to search that house, he added.
he'll be out by lunch— Gradhospital- please stop shooting— Sweet Lou
more details,did the 17 y/o do something to get shot— dmac6419- Most likely some a-hole kids kicked my car while i was in it yesterday. Unfortunatly for them they did not know i was in the car. When i got out and screamed Yo what the F--K! with a tire iron in my hard those little b-trads ran away so fast it wasn't even funny. HAHAHA LIL GANGSTAS AFRAID OF A WHITE GUY!!! — What are you TALKING ABOUT?
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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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