Five people were shot across the Northeast on Halloween weekend, including a 15-year-old boy who was killed in Port Richmond, according to police reporting.
The weekend’s violence began Saturday evening and stretched into early Sunday morning. Citywide, FOX 29 reported three people dead and eight injured, including four teenagers, across 10 shootings and stabbings. In the Northeast, the incidents police reported were these.
In Port Richmond, a 15-year-old boy was shot multiple times on the 3600 block of Richmond Street on Saturday evening, near the Sunoco station at Richmond and Castor Avenue. He died at 7:18 PM. Reports differed on whether anyone was in custody: CBS Philadelphia reported a 40-year-old man had been detained in connection with the killing, while FOX 29 reported no arrests as of Saturday night. No one has been named.
Later Saturday night, a 17-year-old boy riding as a passenger in a car was shot in the right hip on the 8000 block of Frankford Avenue. The driver flagged down officers around 10:10 PM.
Early Sunday morning brought three more Northeast shootings. At 1:12 AM, a 16-year-old boy arrived at St. Christopher’s Hospital for Children with two gunshot wounds to his upper left leg after a shooting on the 1600 block of Vandike Street. He was in stable condition. At 3:37 AM, officers found a 17-year-old boy lying on the sidewalk on the 2900 block of Emerald Street with a gunshot wound to his upper right chest. At 4:45 AM, a 29-year-old man driving a vehicle with apparent bullet holes flagged down officers near K Street and Erie Avenue. He had a gunshot wound to his lower back and was in critical condition. Police said the exact location of that shooting was not known.
Motives in the shootings remain under investigation, and police had not released suspect descriptions for most of the weekend’s scenes.
Anyone with information is asked to call the police tip line at 215-686-TIPS (8477).
