Police cordon after a shooting in the United StatesEuropa Press
four people have died and two others, aged 2 and 13, have been injured tonight in a new multiple shooting in the United Statesthis time in the city of Philadelphia (Pennsylvania). The first shots were heard around 8:30 p.m. in the Kingsessing neighborhood. Multiple notices alerted the police to the shooting that was taking place in the middle of the street.
When the agents arrived in the area and were treating the first victims shots were heard again. More than 50 casings have been found at the scene. For several minutes the situation continued until the police managed to stop the offender in an alleyway.
This is a 40-year-old man who, according to Commissioner Danielle Outlaw, was wearing a bulletproof vest, several chargers with ammunition, a automatic rifle, a pistol and a police scanner. It is unknown, for the moment, what moved the detainee to shoot it through the streets of the city, taking the lives of four people aged 20, 22 and 59. The age of the fourth fatality has not yet been made public.
“At this moment, all we know is that this person decided to leave his house and attack individuals,” said the police commissioner, who has also arrested a second person who apparently responded with his weapon to the attacker.