Multiple shooters opened fire on a buzzy nightlife area in Philadelphia on Saturday night, killing three people and injuring at least 11 others. The mass shooting occurred just before midnight on South Street, one of the city’s most popular strips, which on Saturday evening was packed with hundreds of people. Officers patrolling the entertainment district witnessed “several active shooters” firing into a crowd, a Philadelphia police inspector said Sunday. Police shot at one of the gunmen, but it’s unclear whether the suspect was hit, Inspector D.F. Pace of the Philadelphia Police Department said. The suspect dropped their weapon and fled the scene, Pace said, adding that police are currently looking for the shooters and are reviewing surveillance footage to help identify the gunmen. No arrests have been made so far.
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“There were hundreds of individuals just enjoying South Street as they do every single weekend when this shooting broke out,” Pace said. “This investigation is fluid.” The inspector said that two semiautomatic handguns, one with an extended magazine, were recovered from the scene. Victims were taken to nearby hospitals. The three people who died—a 26-year-old woman, a 22-year-old man, and a 34-year-old man—were pronounced dead on arrival, according to the Washington Post. Twelve others were shot.
A bartender named Eric Walsh was closing up the outdoor area of a nearby venue when the shooting began. “People were coming off the street with blood splatters on white sneakers and skinned knees and skinned elbows. We literally just were balling up napkins and wetting them and handing them to people,” Walsh told the Philadelphia Inquirer. “It was chaos.” Another witness told the outlet that “there was guttural screaming. I just heard screams.”
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The South Street mass shooting is the worst on record in Philadelphia in almost a decade, and comes amid an uptick in gun violence that has the country reeling. An 18-year-old white supremacist is accused of carrying out last month's racist attack in Buffalo, a mass shooting at a supermarket that killed 10 people, all of them Black. Some of those victims had not yet been buried when, in Uvalde, Texas, another 18-year-old gunman—who, like the suspected mass shooter in Buffalo, had also legally obtained an assault-style weapon—opened fire on an elementary school, killing 19 children and two teachers. President Joe Biden has urged Congress to act with renewed calls for a ban on assault-style weapons, as well as tougher background checks on firearm purchases. Families of Uvalde and Buffalo victims will share testimony before a House panel on Wednesday in an effort to galvanize lawmakers. There have been more than 35 mass shootings since the Buffalo attack, the Post reported.
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