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THREE PEOPLE WERE killed and 11 others wounded yesterday after multiple shooters opened fire into a crowd on a popular street in Philadelphia, local police have said.
Police Inspector D.F. Pace told local media that two men and a woman had been killed, adding that officers responding to the incident “observed several active shooters shooting into the crowd.”
“You can imagine there were hundreds of individuals enjoying South Street, as they do every single weekend, when this shooting broke out,” Pace said.
He said that officers had fired at one of the shooters, though it was unclear whether the person was hit.
Local media outlets reported that no arrests had been made.
Saturday night in Philadelphia. A mass shooting on 4th & South Street with reports of nearly a dozen people shot. I’m on scene where police have cordoned off the popular weekend strip, a trail of what appears to be blood snaking along the sidewalk in front of a Rita’s Water Ice. pic.twitter.com/mkUoTvgy2I
— Max M. Marin (@MaxMMarin)
Pace said two handguns were recovered at the scene, and that police would have to wait until morning to review surveillance footage from nearby businesses that were closed on Saturday night.
Pace described the investigation as “fluid,” saying there were still “a lot of unanswered questions.”
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What a terrible country to live in. Couldn’t pay me to live there. RIP to the innocent people just trying to go about with their lives.
@Wooden Spoon: Wife just said the same
@Wooden Spoon: wouldn’t even go there on holiday anymore.
@Brian Dunne: Same, I was planning to go out to Orlando this year as couldn’t go the past 2 years due to Covid situation, now I definitely won’t be going out, far too dangerous with too many mad people in society & I value my life too much than to be caught up in something.
@Brian Dunne: hate the fact that my brother, his wife and their kids live there
@Celeste Ní Raois: like going up north, why would anyone bother?
@John Mulligan: What kind of a statement is that!? Nothing wrong with the North & at least you’re in a better position of not been shot & killed when you go into Sainsbury’s or ASDA to do a bit of shopping!
@Brian Dunne: just thinking that !!!
@Celeste Ní Raois: they haven’t gone away, you know.
@Wooden Spoon: don’t worry, Ireland will catch up soon. Even the young ones going around with American accents. Now that’s effed up.
@John Mulligan: Stupid comment.
@John Mulligan: The murder rate in US is higher than in NI for any single year since 1978. So you have to go back to the complete horror of the early 70s to get a murder rate comparable wiry the USA.
@Brian Dunne: Agreed. I have never been to America and I have made a personal vow never to set foot there.
@John Mulligan: To be honest I would feel far safer in the North than I ever would in America.
‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens
Starting to think the Purge wasn’t that far fetched of a film
America is quick enough to but in on other countries affairs…they should concentrate on their own sess pit of a country…what do they really pride themselves on..
All good guys with guns I’m sure.
The carnage continues.
Thier a strange breed the Americans,this wont stop until all firearms are banned in every state!
@Jan O’Sullivan: therefore it will never end.
Thoughts and prayers
@John Mulligan: that should do the trick
@Brianto: give over will ya!
@Damien Leen: how’s that quad looking, Damo?
@JustBEERbarry: Hahaha
Now…just think…if everybody was armed they could have defended themselves…sound thinking…if ur insane!!!!
@Damien Leen: Or doors. If they just banned all doors no bad guys with guns could escape.
@Cian Nolan: no see they would just shoot out the windows with said guns…has to be guns that are banned I’m afraid!
@Damien Leen: Then the thinking wouldn’t be sound!
If personality disorder’s were nations….
A sh#tehole country, going backwards fast…
It will thought aand prayers and then, If everybody was armed it would have never happened. Sure a t the sun coming up in the morning.
Need to have political will to get gun out of America. But with NRA republican clout, and enshrined Wild West concept in constitution the gun remains firmly at the heart of America
Need to have political will to get gun out of America. But with nra, republican clout, and enshrined Wild West concept in constitution the gun remains firmly at the heart of america
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