Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Three Shootings Minutes Apart Leave Two Dead, Including a 15 Year Old Boy, on Halloween Night

Three separate shootings across Philadelphia on Saturday evening, reported within about 26 minutes of each other, left two people dead and a third man wounded, according to the Philadelphia Police Department accounts carried by FOX 29 Philadelphia and NBC10 Philadelphia.

The first shooting was reported at 6:49 p.m. on Saturday, October 31, in West Philadelphia. Officers who responded to the 1200 block of North Redfield Street found a 40 year old man with multiple gunshot wounds. Police took the man to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead just after 7:15 p.m.

One minute later, at about 6:50 p.m., officers were called to Port Richmond, on the other side of the city. In the 3600 block of Richmond Street they found a 15 year old boy who had been shot multiple times. The boy was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead there. Police have not released the name of either person who was killed.

A third shooting in Fairhill

A third shooting was reported at about 7:15 p.m. in the Fairhill section of North Philadelphia. Officers in the 200 block of East Cambria Street found a 32 year old man who had been shot in the hip. He was taken to a hospital and was listed in stable condition on Saturday night, police said.

Police searched all three scenes and did not recover a weapon at any of them. No arrests had been made as of Saturday night, and police had not released a suspect description or said what led to any of the shootings. Police also have not said whether the three shootings are connected.

Anyone with information about any of the three shootings is asked to contact Philadelphia investigators by calling or texting 215-686-TIPS (8477).

An overnight run of violence came first

The evening shootings followed an overnight stretch in which four separate shootings and stabbings across the city left four people hurt, two of them critically, according to the police account published by FOX 29 on Saturday morning.

That run began late on Friday night. At about 11:35 p.m., officers responding to a report of a person with a gun in the 500 block of South Salford Street in West Philadelphia found a 22 year old man with multiple gunshot wounds to the face. He was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in critical condition. Investigators found a 2026 black Cadillac Escalade at the scene with multiple bullet holes and recovered two firearms there.

At about 3:15 a.m. on Saturday, officers were called to the 700 block of North 40th Street for a stabbing. Medics took an adult man to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition. At about 5:24 a.m., officers responded to Episcopal Hospital after a 20 year old man arrived with a gunshot graze wound to his left arm. The man told police the shooting happened on the 4000 block of Lancaster Avenue. He was transferred to Temple University Hospital and was expected to be released.

A second stabbing was reported at about 9:47 a.m. in North Philadelphia. Officers in the 2500 block of North 17th Street found a 43 year old man with a stab wound to the stomach. Police took him to Temple University Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition.

Police did not release the names of the victims in the overnight incidents, and no arrests were reported in any of those cases either.