Girl, 16, shot several times on Philly stoop

A 16-year-old girl was wounded after she was shot several times while sitting on steps in front of a Southwest Philadelphia home, police said.

About 12:05 a.m. Wednesday, the teen was on the 5900 block of Springfield Avenue, chatting with two other girls, ages 12 and 18, who live at the home, when a car drove by and someone fired several shots, Lt. John Walker of Southwest Detectives said.

The 16-year-old was struck in her right arm, right buttock and left chest area, police said. Officers rushed her to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where she was in stable condition.

Walker said police don't believe the girls were a target of the shooting, but that someone else at the home or a neighbor's home may have been. A motive for the shooting was not known.

The victim's mother, Tywanda Davis, told CBS3 that she and her daughter live in Johnstown, Pa., and were in Philadelphia to visit family and friends.

"I'm just hurt right now," the mother said. "I don't know. I don't know. This has got to stop. Because the one that went across her chest, it just missed it, it could have killed my child. She said the whole time she was in the back of the cop car, she just said she thought she was going to die."

No arrest has been reported.