Philadelphia Mass Shooting: At least 9 wounded

Police said that a mass shooting occurred Saturday night in Philadelphia's Kensington neighbourhood, injuring at least nine individuals.

Inspector D.F. Pace of the Philadelphia Police Department claimed there were likely more victims than the initial nine and that the victims were shot close to Kensington and Allegheny avenues. According to Deputy Police Commissioner John Stanford, two people are in critical condition and seven others are in stable condition.

According to Pace, the shooting took place outside a local bar at about 10:45 p.m. After firing on a gathering on the sidewalk, the assailants returned to their black car and fled, according to Stanford.

He mentioned that there were police officers nearby who heard the gunfire. “Our men and women are where they’re supposed to be in the sense of being out here patrolling, but we have some brazen individuals in this city that don’t care. They don’t care how many police officers are out here, and some of them don’t care in terms of how many people are out here," the deputy police commissioner said.

Police were unable to make an arrest right away or pinpoint a motive right away.

Amen Brown, a Democratic state representative for West Philadelphia, told NBC10 that he received a call "from the chief" and immediately got out of bed to get to the gunshot scene.

Brown blamed Mayor Jim Kenney, the office of District Attorney Larry Krasner, and "weak City Council members" for the gun violence in the city. Brown stated that "innocent women and children are dying every single day, and it has to stop," adding that bipartisan cooperation among lawmakers is necessary to find solutions.

At least 447 homicides had been reported in the city as of Saturday night, according to the PPD. A count kept by the city controller's office, which was most recently updated on November 3, indicates that at least 417 of those murders involved firearms.

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