Man dead, teenager among 6 injured in 3 separate Philadelphia shootings, police say
Seven people were shot in Philadelphia on Tuesday night in three separate shootings, including one where a man died in West Philly.
The first shooting happened on the 5900 block of Ludlow Street in West Philadelphia just before 9 p.m.
Police said a man was shot and taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead at 9:06 p.m. Police identified the man as 47-year-old Phillip Jackson.
The shooting is under investigation by the Philadelphia Police Department's Homicide Unit.
Later on Tuesday night, three men were shot in South Philadelphia's Grays Ferry neighborhood at around 9:30 p.m.
According to police, the shooting happened on the 1500 block of South Stanley Street.
A 28-year-old man was shot in the right hip, and a 24-year-old man was shot in the back and neck, police said. An 18-year-old man was also shot in the right leg and left arm. Police said all three of them were placed in stable condition at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center.
The third shooting happened in North Philadelphia at around 10:30 p.m., according to police.
A 34-year-old man, a 37-year-old woman and a 16-year-old teenage boy were shot on the 1500 block of Gratz Street while they were sitting on a porch, police said.
Police said the three people were shot after three to four men exited a white Dodge Durango with tinted windows and fired their weapons at them. The three men were wearing dark clothing and wearing masks, according to police. The gunmen fled the scene after the shooting, but police didn't say which direction they were heading.
The man, woman and teenage boy were each taken to Temple University Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
So far, no arrests have been made in any of the shootings, police said. The motives for each shooting remain unclear at this time
