{"id":10788,"date":"2023-05-02T08:03:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T13:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=10788"},"modified":"2023-05-02T08:03:50","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T13:03:50","slug":"3-teens-were-killed-and-1-was-injured-in-a-philadelphia-mass-shooting-2-teen-boys-have-been-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=10788","title":{"rendered":"3 teens were killed and 1 was injured in a Philadelphia mass shooting. 2 teen boys have been arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Three teenagers \u2013 including a 14-year-old \u2013 were killed and another was injured during a shooting in Philadelphia Friday afternoon, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Philadelphia police say officers responded to a report of a shooting around 3:30 p.m. Friday in the Lawncrest neighborhood northeast of downtown Philadelphia, where they found three victims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police found a 17-year-old male lying on a sidewalk outside a home with gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second victim \u2013 an 18-year-old male \u2013 was found on the front porch with gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The third victim \u2013 a 14-year-old boy \u2013 was found inside the doorway of the home. Medics pronounced all three victims dead at the scene, police said in a report shared with CNN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Another victim, a 16-year-old male, arrived at a hospital with a gunshot wound to his stomach. He is in stable condition, Philadelphia Police First Deputy Commissioner John Stanford told&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/philadelphia\/\">CNN affiliate KYW<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Neighbor Shierea Owens had to walk her 7-year-old daughter around crime tape to take her home from school Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no accountability today,\u201d Owens told KYW. \u201cThat\u2019s too close for home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Police arrested two juvenile males \u2013 ages 15 and 16 \u2013 on firearms and related charges after a vehicle believed to be involved in the quadruple shooting was found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The investigation is ongoing, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The US has suffered at least 176 mass shootings in the first four months of this year, according to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunviolencearchive.org\/export-finished?filename=public:\/\/export-0d63d3f4-06d4-4764-b2bd-4f8aaee38ee4.csv&amp;uuid=0484b316-f676-44bc-97ed-ecefeabae077&amp;return_href=reports\/mass-shooting\"><u>Gun Violence Archive<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nonprofit, like CNN, defines mass shootings as those in which four or more people are shot \u2013 not including the shooter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2023\/04\/30\/us\/philadelphia-shooting-teens-killed\/index.html\">Cnn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three teenagers \u2013 including a 14-year-old \u2013 were killed and another was injured during a shooting in Philadelphia Friday afternoon, police said. Philadelphia police say officers responded to a report of a shooting around 3:30 p.m. Friday in the Lawncrest neighborhood northeast of downtown Philadelphia, where they found three victims. Police found a 17-year-old male [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10790,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1154],"tags":[1185,6077,6076,2339,1290],"class_list":["post-10788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trending","tag-deaths","tag-injuries","tag-mass-shootings","tag-philadelphia","tag-teens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10791,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10788\/revisions\/10791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}