UPDATE: Monday, March 28, 10 a.m.
The 15-year-old boy, who authorities identified as Sean Toomey, died from gunshot wounds to the head on Friday, March 25, at 1:35 p.m., according to the Philadelphia Police Department.
Sources now tell KYW Newsradio that Toomey may himself have been the victim of a carjacking attempt, shot twice in the head unloading bottles of water from his father's car.
Stay with KYW Newsradio for further updates.
The original story follows
PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Less than an hour after the manager of a Dollar General shot and killed a man who was trying to rob the store, a 15-year-old boy was hit with a stray bullet in an unrelated incident, according to police.
The boy was shot in the head as he was carrying a package of bottled water into a home in Northeast Philadelphia, police say. It is a residential block, on Mulberry Street near Devereaux Street, with an apartment building on one side of the street and row homes along the other.
The ordeal started around 9:15 Thursday night, when three teens tried to get into a woman’s car. She spoke to KYW Newsradio, but she did not want to give her name.
She said the teens tried to get in her car as she was pulling into the apartment parking lot. She was scared because her young child was in the back seat, so she said she called her boyfriend. He came out of the apartment to confront the teens, and three or four shots were fired at him, she said.
They all missed, but a pair of bullets flew across the street and hit the innocent boy in the head, according to Inspector D.F. Pace.
“This 15-year-old victim was not involved in any way,” Pace said. “He was simply minding his own business, taking some bottled water into his house.”
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The boy is at a hospital where, Pace said, he is in “extremely critical” condition.
According to statistics from the Philadelphia controller's office, 30 children have been shot in the city so far this year.
The victim of the attempted carjacking said she was shaken by what happened and did not sleep much Thursday night.
No one else was hit with gunfire, and police say the teens ran off. Now police are trying to figure out who they are and where they went.
About 15 minutes before the incident, a group attempted to rob someone at an ATM at Frankford Avenue and Levick Street, a few blocks away.
About a half-hour before all of this, the manager of a Philadelphia Dollar General shot and killed a man who was trying to rob the store, according to police.
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Police say, around 8:40 p.m., a 36-year-old man approached a woman working behind the cashier at the store located at Ninth Street and Girard Avenue and announced a robbery. He told her he had a gun, according to the woman, who then alerted the store manager.
Witnesses told police the manager approached the suspect and tried to reason with him, but the man produced what they believed to be a gun. The manager, who has a license to carry a firearm, then pulled out his own gun and opened fire, according to investigators.
Police said the would-be robber was shot at least once in the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police added late Friday afternoon that there was no link between the shooters and an earlier robbery.