Philadelphia Police report seeing multiple shooters
A police commander said officers first heard numerous gunshots near Second and South Streets and saw multiple shooters. Pace said “numerous” officers had already been detailed to patrol the busy entertainment hub during what he called a “standard deployment” during summer weekends.
Officers ran in that direction and one officer fired at one of the shooters while that person was still firing a gun, said Inspector D.F. Pace. It was not clear if the officer struck the shooter, Pace said.
One shooter dropped their firearm, which had an extended magazine, Pace said.
Pace also confirmed 14 people had been shot, three had died from their injuries.
Police recovered two semi-automatic handguns from the shooting scene, Pace said. Shell casings stretched from the 200 block to the 300 block of South Street.
“You can imagine there were hundreds of individuals enjoying South Street, as they do every single weekend, when this shooting broke out,” Pace said.
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