3 Dead, 11 Injured In Philadelphia South Street Shooting

Three people were killed and 11 were injured after multiple shooters opened fire amid the Saturday night crowds on a major street in Philadelphia.

Police were already patrolling South Street — one of the city’s busiest areas full of bars and restaurants — when officers “heard numerous gunshots,” Philadelphia Police Department spokesperson D.F. Pace said in a press conference shortly after the incident.

“You can imagine, there were hundreds of individuals just enjoying South Street, as they do every single weekend, when this shooting broke out,” Pace said.

In a press conference Sunday afternoon, Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said the deceased victims were a 34-year-old man, a 27-year-old woman, and a 22-year-old man, all of whom were Black. The injured victims range in age from 17 to 69.

“We’re absolutely devastated — devastated — by this incident,” Outlaw said. “We mourn the lives lost and the dozens and dozens of lives affected by this tragedy.”

Outlaw said authorities believe that “one of the three decedents was a male involved in a physical altercation with another male that was potentially the genesis of the shooting.”

“These individuals eventually began firing at one another, with both being struck, one fatally,” Outlaw said.

They believe the other two killed, as well as the other injured victims, were “innocent bystanders” who “were uninvolved in the initial altercation.”

One of the police officers who was at the scene reported seeing an “unknown male” firing a gun into the crowd, and he shot at the man, possibly striking him. The man then dropped his weapon and ran off, and police lost track of him, Outlaw said.

No arrests have been made yet.

Police said they believe five guns were used in the shooting, two of which they found at the scene. At least one had a high-capacity magazine, Pace said at the earlier press conference.