5 shot in Philadelphia on same street as police shootout
by John Gage
| August 15, 2019 09:13 PM
Multiple people were shot in Philadelphia just a couple miles away from the shootout that wounded six police officers Wednesday.
Police said that four men and a teenage boy were injured Thursday in a shooting on the same street in the Nicetown-Tioga neighborhood as yesterday's mass shooting. The five victims were sent to the local hospital with nonfatal injuries.
Police Commissioner Richard Ross said the shooting was likely gang-related.
"There was some chairs up about a block-and-a-half, leading us to believe the individuals, the victims, were probably seated when they were targeted," Ross said.
Detectives have opened in investigation into the cause of the shooting, but no arrests have been made.
Six Philadelphia police officers were shot Wednesday in a seven-hour standoff with the alleged gunman, 36-year-old Maurice Hill.
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