A teenager was killed and four other people were wounded in a shooting Monday afternoon at a bus stop in Philadelphia, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The shooting occurred about 3:45 p.m. at the SEPTA bus stop near Broad Street and Godfrey Avenue. The 17-year-old boy who died was shot multiple times, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Two 15-year-old boys had graze wounds. A 71-year-old woman was shot in the head, and a 49-year-old woman was grazed in the right forearm, police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The victim who was killed appears to have been targeted, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said at a media briefing Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His identity has not been released.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
About 20 school-age children were at the stop when two people went up to the bus and started shooting. The women who were shot were aboard the bus, Bethel said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“The bus is stopped. People are starting to board the bus, and that’s when we have two individuals come up and start to fire,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added that the shooting happened at a busy intersection and that multiple rounds were fired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“It could have been much worse,” Bethel said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Police had not announced any arrests Monday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A SEPTA spokesperson said that such incidents are “extremely rare” for the transit service and that “even one is unacceptable.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThis was a horrific incident that claimed one life and left several others injured, including two women on the Route 6 bus who were just trying to go about their day,\u201d SEPTA spokesperson Andrew Busch said in a statement to NBC Philadelphia<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n