PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A 16-year-old boy who was shot last weekend in West Philadelphia has died. He is the sixth juvenile killed by gunfire in the first month of the new year.
Mehki Ingram was found shot several times in his midsection inside his Mill Creek home on June Street, near 46th and Brown streets, on Jan. 22 around 9 p.m.
Investigators say the teen may have been on his way out to meet someone when he was gunned down.
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Ingram was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he died on Saturday.
Detectives have been trying to recover surveillance video and believe the gunfire may have come from across the street.
Ingram is one of six juveniles killed this month. Last week, 17-year-old Christopher Braxton was shot and killed outside of his school, Bartram High. Carissa Bright, also 17, was gunned down in a car in Mount Airy two weeks ago. Byron Thompson, 16, was killed at 16th Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue on New Year’s Day.
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More than a dozen other children or teens have been shot and injured in January. In all, 38 people have been killed this month — down slightly from this time last year, which was an all-time high, but still significantly higher than 2020, 2019 and prior years.