Philadelphia– Police are on the scene of a mass shooting involving a SEPTA bus as numerous people have been shot inside
Currently, multiple law enforcement and other authorities are on the scene to a drive by mass shooting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Reports indicate that seven children or juveniles have been shot inside of a SEPTA bus.
Police advise people to avoid the area as they are still determining the number of injuries. Several potential gunshot victims have been taken to the hospital.
This situation is still developing.
Update: Hospital nursing supervisors either declined to comment on the conditions of the patients they received, or did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
Monique Braxton, deputy chief of communications for the Philadelphia school district, said the shooting occurred near two schools, Northeast High School and Crossan Elementary, but she didn’t know whether any students were victims.
The elementary school was dismissing students at the time but pulled them back inside and locked down, she added. It was later given the all-clear from police.
Wednesday’s shooting came a day after a passenger on another bus was shot, marking the third time in three days that someone was killed while riding, entering or leaving a SEPTA bus.
That shooting occurred around 6:35 p.m. Tuesday, when police said a verbal argument and then a physical fight began. One of the two passengers exited, turned and fired two shots from a 9 mm handgun, hitting a man later identified as 37-year-old Carmelo Drayton. He died shortly afterward at a hospital.
The shooter, who officials said was wearing one of the kinds of masks not allowed on the transit system, fled. Authorities were investigating possible motive, and no other injuries were reported.
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