PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Philadelphia has surpassed 1,000 shooting victims so far this year.
Monday morning, a man was shot in the abdomen on a Market-Frankford Line train. Within the span of three hours that evening, there were multiple double shootings.
Around 5:30 p.m., two teens were shot in their car in Olney, ages 15 and 19. Around 7 p.m. in North Philadelphia, a man and woman were gunned down.
Less than a half-hour earlier, another shooting in the same area left a man dead and another in critical condition from a gunshot wound to the abdomen.
Another man was fatally shot in the head just after 11 p.m. in North Philadelphia.
And over the weekend, there were multiple triple shootings.
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In North Philadelphia on Sunday, a man was shot and killed from a headshot wound, and two women were also injured.
On Saturday, two men were killed and one child was injured in an Overbrook shooting. Hours later in a separate shooting, three people were wounded after a gunman fired more than 50 shots at a graduation party.
Of all the gunshot victims this year, authorities say almost 100 of them have been under the age of 18.
Homicides continue to rise as well: more than 260 victims.