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3 killed and at least 11 wounded in Philadelphia in another mass shooting

PHILADELPHIA — Gunfire killed 3 humans and wounded as a minimum eleven others in a famous downtown Philadelphia amusement district overdue Saturday night, government stated. 

 Police officials have been patrolling the region on South Street in downtown Philadelphia after they heard a couple of gunshots and witnessed numerous suspects firing right into a big crowd simply earlier than midnight, Police Inspector D. F. Pace stated in the course of a information conference.

An officer shot at one of the suspects from approximately 30 feet (nine meters) away, however it's far uncertain if the suspect changed into hit, Pace said. 

 "You can believe there have been masses of people simply taking part in South Street, as they do each unmarried weekend, whilst this capturing broke out," Pace said. 

 Two guys and a lady have been amongst the ones killed withinside the capturing, he said. Their names have been now no longer made public through authorities. Thomas Jefferson University Hospital spokesperson Damien Woods said, of the ten sufferers who got here to the hospital, 3 have been dead, six have been in solid situation and one were discharged.

Two handguns have been recovered, which includes one with an prolonged magazine, police stated. No arrests had been made. 

 South Street is understood for its amusement venues and night time lifestyles with more than one bars, eating places and groups. Surveillance video from a nearby enterprise published with the aid of using WTXF-TV confirmed rankings of human beings milling approximately at the sidewalks and in the road who then unexpectedly commenced to escape en masse because the gunfire commenced. 

 Pace stated police count on so that it will gather "a number of video surveillance footage" from the numerous groups alongside the road later withinside the day to try and become aware of suspects. 

 Mayor Jim Kenney kno

n as the shooting "past devastating." 

 "Once again, we see lives senselessly misplaced and people injured in but every other horrendous, brazen and despicable act of gun violence," he stated in a declaration Sunday morning. "My coronary heart is with the family, friends, cherished ones of these misplaced or injured, and with anybody impacted with the aid of using this horrible tragedy. " 

 Kenney stated the surge in gun violence withinside the metropolis and throughout the nation "makes me now no longer simply heartbroken, however angry." He stated, however, combating it might be "an uphill battle" with out measures to deal with the "availability and simplicity of get entry to to firearms." 

 Eric Walsh, ultimate up the outside seating place of a bar alongside the block, instructed The Philadelphia Inquirer that the scene was "chaos." He stated he noticed a younger girl disintegrate to the floor at the corner. 

 "People have been coming off the road with blood splatters on white shoes and skinned knees and skinned elbows," Walsh stated. "We actually simply have been balling up napkins and wetting them and handing them to human beings."