2-year-old shot in mob brawl in S. Philly

2-year-old shot in mob brawl in S. Philly


A critically wounded 2-year-old girl was among four people shot Tuesday night in South Philadelphia when a mob of girls charged a house and gunfire erupted in a dispute stemming from a high school fight, police said.

A 10-year-boy and a 59-year-old woman, who live in the same house as the toddler, also were wounded and were hospitalized in stable condition. A 25-year-old man was shot in the finger.

Police were called at 7:31 p.m. to the 1200 block of South Bucknell Street in response to a report of a melee and gunfire.

The 2-year-old was shot in the stomach and hip areas and in a hand, police said. The boy was shot in the right calf. Both were being treated at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

The woman was shot in the left leg, police said. She was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

The gunman was described as black, 25 to 30 years old, weighing about 210 pounds and standing about six feet tall, police said. He was wearing a white T-shirt, blue jeans, and a fitted baseball cap. He was last seen running south on Bucknell.

Police spokesman Lt. Raymond Evers said a fight among girls from South Philadelphia High School led to another altercation and, ultimately, the shooting.

Girls involved in the fight showed up at a 12-year-old girl's house on Bucknell, Evers said. "The girls were pushing into the house," Evers said.

Some neighbors got involved, and one girl called an unidentified man, Evers said. A group of men arrived at the scene and the fighting escalated. Two men pulled out guns and one of them began firing.

Chief Inspector Scott Small said the two children were in the house when they were wounded. Blood was visible on the living room floor just inside the front door. The woman was in front of the house when she was hit, Small said.

Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey also responded to scene and denounced a culture of violence among young people.

A neighbor said he saw "a pack of kids raising hell" down the block. Soon afterward, he heard gunshots. The neighbor said he called 911 and by the time he got off the phone, a patrol car had arrived. By that point, everyone involved in the melee had scattered.

The officer "ran through the house and he came out with the baby" and sped off, the neighbor said.

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Philly is becoming the poster child for Democrat rule. It's hard to imagine a more screwed up place in America. It's time to end the progressive "war on poverty". It failed.


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So your idea of fixing poverty is to abandon any cash flow into these neighborhoods? How enlightening. You may be in favor of turning South Philly into Somalia, but most people disagree. Thankfully.

 

Do you reward your children for their bad behavior by giving them what they want?

Poverty doesn't explain this, it's not the full picture... funny though... your idea that that Philly would turn into Somalia...

 

more guns being mixed into the situation would have worked obviously.

 

If paying Obama voters to sit at home doing nothing does not make them into good citizens then let's try something else.

Like not paying them and forcing them to find a job.

 

LOL Paying them? Hey Mac, please enlighten me and tell me how "well off" these Obama voters sitting at home are?

 

It's a shame the Democrats are satisfied with the conditions in which many minorities must live, the schools they are forced to attend, and their lack of options to escape Democrat poverty.

It's truly sad and we should do simething about it.

 

Yeah, you're suggestion is to stop giving them aid and let them fend for themselves, basically turning the ghetto into a 3rd world country free-for-all.

 

Well enough apparently to keep them in the hood.

Even the Mexicans migrated from their villages in search of something better.

 

Well enough to keep them in the hood? As in the hood is some great place to live?

And the hoods have better living conditions than most of the 3rd would countries in Latin America. Do you really want to lower the hood to that standard?

 

A mob of female Obama welfare babies tries to storm a house and 3 people are shot.

That sounds like a 3d world free-for-all to me.

 

It's good enough that they are still there.

Juan and Pedro hike all the way from Honduras to California or New York to find work while Obama voters are still in the hood waiting for someone to give them something.

 

Really? What's Somalia than? Hell on Earth?

 

I'm not worried about Somalia.

The untamed streets of America are much closer to home.

 

Exactly. And you want to make them similar to 3rd World Latin America to somehow "motivate" the people living there to do better for themselves. Putting it simply, you want to the make the ghetto more ghetto.

 

Very tragic story.


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Well off enough to have guns (likely stolen) and well off enough to buy bullets for the guns. And own cell phones.

If I were a parent of this 2 yr old, I'd be so comforted by all these poor, pathetic, poverty excuses from the leftists.

How can anyone seriously excuse this - and still look at themselves in the mirror?

 

And how is throwing a (*)(*)(*)(*)-ton of money at them suppose to help?
All it does is encourage them to breed more little thugs.

 

Collatoral Damage. It happens and it happens more in combat.

 

I think they are already there in terms of violence.

Paying Obama voters to behave themselves is clearly not working so the next thing is stop throwing good money after bad.

If people from Central America can walk 2,000 miles to get here surely Obama voters in the hood can pick themselves up and make an effort to improve their lives.

 

Look around you sometime, they are lowering it to that standard with the money given. How much worse can it get?

 

too late,

and since when was poverty the cause of violent crime?

 

Yea your right because Republicans did a helluva job changing conditions some of these minorities live in when they were in office.

 

That's weird, no welfare = no cash flow in your world. I was thinking of a return to the family as the basic unit of civilization, and gainful employment with a new purpose in the lives of many.

Observe that American blacks would quickly become Somali terrorists without gov't cheese in the softly-racist world of the progressive. And, to any American blacks here, this is what white progressives really think about you.


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So, let the thugs murder the kids? I'd rather an armed citizen or police end the situation with the threat of gunfire. Most thugs are cowards after all.

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