Three people were killed and eleven others injured on Saturday, June 4, during a shootout with several shooters in a crowded street in Philadelphia (in the northeastern United States).
“Fourteen people, to our knowledge, were hit by gunfire and hospitalized, Philadelphia Police Inspector D.F. Pace told reporters. Three of those people, two men and one woman, were pronounced dead on arrival at hospitals with multiple gunshot wounds. »
Inspector Pace told local media that the officers who attended « [avaient] observed several active shooters opening fire on the crowd” in the busy South Street area of Philadelphia. ‘You can imagine there were hundreds of people taking advantage of South Street, like every weekend when this shooting broke out’said the inspector.
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“Many unanswered questions”
According to him, the police opened fire on one of the shooters, but it is not known if he was hit. Local media reported that police have so far made no arrests.
According to Inspector Pace, two handguns were found at the scene, and the police must wait until the morning to examine the images of the surveillance cameras of the surrounding businesses which were closed on Saturday evening. The investigation proceeds in a manner ” fluid “with “many unanswered questions”he added.
Since the shooting at a school in Uvalde, Texason May 24, which killed 21 people, there were more than twenty shootings with several victims in the United States, according to the association Gun Violence Archive.