Weekend report: Five new shooting victims bring total to 49 this month in Philadlephia

Posted on June 17, 2013 by Jim MacMillan

Two men were killed and three more people were wounded by gunfire this weekend in Philadelphia, including one woman and a 14-year-old boy.

At least 49 people have been shot this month in Philadlephia, including five fatalities and 11 people with critical injuries. Six women, a 13-year-old girl and six more teens were reported among those wounded.

On Friday night, a 31-year-old man was shot to death at about 11 p.m. on Hill Creek Drive near Adams and Rising Sun Avenues in the Crescentville section of the city.

A 14-year-old boy was reported in stable condition at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia after he was shot in the stomach Friday night in the area of South 26 and Moore Streets in South Philadlephia.

Police rushed a 19-year-old man to Hahnemann University Hospital, where he was reported in stable condition after he was shot in the leg Saturday afternoon in the area of 29th and Flora Streets, just north of Girard Avenue in the Brewerytown section of the city.

A 27-year-old man was shot and killed at a basketball court on 8th Street near Poplar Street at about 2 p.m. Sunday. The incident took place across the street form the police crime lab.

Police rushed a 48-year-old woman to Temple University Hospital, where she was reported in critical condition after she was shot three times on Crystal Street, near Ontario and E Streets in Kensington shortly before 3 p.m. Sunday.

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Gunfire kills one man and wounds a second early Thursday

Posted on June 13, 2013 by Jim MacMillan

A 27-year-old man was found shot to death near Roosevelt Boulevard and North Broad Street in Philadelphia’s Hunting Park section at about 6:30 a.m. Thursday. According to the Philadelphia Daily News, the victim was shot in the head and has yet to be identified.

Another man was reported in stable condition at Einstein Medical Center after he was shot overnight on Ogontz Avenue near Limekiln Pike, in the Ogontz section of the city.

Early Thursday morning, a 28-year-old man was shot on South 55th Street in Southwest Philadelphia. He was reported in stable condition at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Gunshot victim reports have dropped significantly this week after 40 victims were reported across Philadelphia through the first ten days of June.

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Updates: Ten weekend shootings bring Philadelphia victim count to 40 this month

Posted on June 10, 2013 by Jim MacMillan

Ten Philadelphia shooting victims this weekend brought the total for June to 40, including three fatalities and ten people with critical injuries. Five women, a 13-year-old girl and five more teens were reported among those wounded.

A 19-year-old man was shot in the foot just before noon Friday in the area of North 6th and West Venango Streets. At about 1:30 p.m. Friday, a 33-year-old man was shot twice at North Lawrence and West Cumberland Streets. Both were reported in stable condition at area hospitals.

Police rushed a 52-year-old man to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after he was shot twice in the arm at about 10:30 p.m. Friday at Buist Avenue and 68th Street in Southwest Philadelphia. According to a 6ABC report, the victim was following suspects in a deli robbery when one opened fire.

Just after midnight Saturday, a 38-year-old woman was shot in the leg inside a home on the 2000 block of South 58th Street. She was reported in stable condition.

Three men were shot in separate incidents in the span of one hour Saturday night.

A 45-year-old man was reported stable at HUP after he was shot at about 10:15 p.m. Saturday on South Cecil Street near Greenway Avenue in the Kingsessing section of Southwest Philadelphia.

A short time later, medics rushed a 57-year-old man to Einstein Medical Center, where he was reported stable after a shooting on North 7th Street near West Loudon Street in the Olney section of the city.

Police rushed a 24-year-old man to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital after he was shot twice on South 15th Street near Wharton Street in the Point Breeze section of South Philadelphia. He was reported in stable condition.

On Sunday, a 13-year-old girl was reported in stable condition at Temple University Hospital after she was shot in the eye by a stray bullet in North Philadelphia. She was later transferred to St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children.

A 23-year-old woman was reported in critical condition after she was shot in the neck on the 3400 block of Fairmount Avenue in the Mantua section of West Philadelphia at about 4:30 p.m. Sunday.

Finally, a 26-year-old man was reported stable at HUP after he was shot shortly before 2 a.m. Monday on Chester Avenue near 51st Street in the Kingsessing section of Southwest Philadelphia.

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Four new Philadelphia shooting victims bring total to 34 in June

Posted on June 8, 2013 by Jim MacMillan

Four new shootings this weekend bring the victim count for the first week of June to 34, including three fatalities and nine people with critical injuries. Four women, five teens, an elderly man and a taxi driver were reported among those wounded.

A 19-year-old man was shot in the foot just before noon Friday in the area of North 6th and West Venango Streets. At about 1:30 p.m. Friday, a 33-year-old man was sit twice at North Lawrence and West Cumberland Streets. Both were reported in stable condition at area hospitals.

Just after midnight Saturday, a 38-year-old woman was shot in the leg inside a home on the 2000 block of South 58th Street. She was reported in stable condition.

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New York responds to violent weekend while Philadelphia suffers four times over

Posted on June 7, 2013 by Jim MacMillan

Police investigate the crime scene on Arrott Street near Penn Street in the Frankford section of Philadelphia on Friday May 31, 2013, after a teen was fatally shot. According to police, they received a call for gunshots at the intersection around 9:40 p.m. and found the victim lying on the sidewalk suffering from a gunshot wound. Police said the unidentified male was approximately 16 to 19 years-old and was pronounced on scene by medics. A large crowd of neighbors gathered around the perimeter of the crime scene watching police move around the victim's body still lying in Arrott Street. GunCrisis.org/ Joseph Kaczmarek

Young neighbors watch as police investigate the scene where a teenager was shot to death in the Frankford section of Philadelphia last weekend. Photographs for the Gun Crisis Reporting Project by Joseph Kaczmarek.

Last weekend, the New York Daily News shouted “Mayhem” when 25 people were shot across the city in 48 hours.

But per capita, almost four times as many people were shot here in Philadelphia, where two people were killed and 14 were wounded during the same period.

If New York City had suffered at that same rate as Philadelphia last weekend, 88 people would have been shot — instead of 25.

On Monday, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg addressed the violent weekend during a news conference, according to the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Police Department announced that it was putting more officers in certain neighborhoods “to suppress further violence,” according to the New York Times.

Bloomberg also met with the father of an 11-year-old girl who was paralyzed after she was hit by a stray bullet outside her Brooklyn home Friday, according to nbcnewyork.com and a peace and prayer rally was held in Bedford-Stuyvesant, according to news12.com.

This week in Philadlephia, you could spot city leaders and most of the news media staff, vehicles and other resources at 22nd and Market Streets, at the scene of a building collapse that killed six people and injured 13 Wednesday.

We wish to express our sympathies to the victims and their families and commend our colleagues on outstanding reporting. A great deal of attention has been turned toward the cause of the catastrophe, who should be held responsible, and what the city can do to prevent it from happening again.

But at the same time, very little attention has been paid to the 30 shooting victims reported across Philadlephia so far this week.

We can only imagine the possibilities if the same demand for accountability were applied to the ongoing epidemic of gun violence in our city — as we have seen in New York.

Neighbors look on as police investigate the scene where a teenager was shot to death in the Frankford section of Philadelphia last weekend. Photographs for the Gun Crisis Reporting Project by Joseph Kaczmarek.

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