Police: 1 Teen Killed, Another Injured In South Philadelphia Shooting

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PHILADELPHIA (CBS) - One teenager is dead and another teen injured after a shooting where more than two dozen shots were fired Sunday night.

The shooting happened just before midnight at the intersection of 16th and Catharine Streets in the Graduate Hospital section of South Philadelphia.

Officers arrived to find a 19-year-old man bleeding heavily on the sidewalk. They rushed him to Jefferson University Hospital,  where he was pronounced dead a short time later.

Investigators learned a second person, an 18-year-old man, was shot once in the left leg. He ran to the 700 block of Dorrance Street. Someone there drove him to Penn Presbyterian Hospital.

Police recovered more than 25 spent shell casings on the scene. Two parked cars were hit with bullets and one bullet went through the second floor of a nearby home and lodged into a mattress.

"There were several people in the property. Some of them were awake at the time and when they heard the shots, it was multiple shots," said Chief Inspector Scott Small of the Philadelphia Police Department. "They immediately jumped to the ground and while they were laying on the floor in the second floor, they still heard continuing gunshots, so they did the right thing and luckily no one was injured inside of that property."

Police say the two men who were shot were standing in a group with other young men.

The only description of the shooters so far are two men who drove off in a silver car. Police are collecting surveillance video from the scene in hopes of getting a better description of the men involved.

There is no word on a motive.

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