PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Philadelphia police say that two teens were injured during a shooting Tuesday afternoon that happened just two blocks from the site of a deadly shooting of a Temple University police officer Saturday night.
The Tuesday shootings happened as the teens were heading home from school, near the corner of North Uber Street and West Montgomery Avenue at about 3:30 p.m.
Police say a 17-year-old boy was shot four times in his leg and was taken to a hospital in critical condition. A 13-year-old girl was shot in her right arm and was hospitalized in stable condition.
The shootings happened near the time a vigil was being held to remember Temple officer Chris Fitzgerald, who was shot and killed near the corner of North Bouvier Street and West Montgomery Avenue on Saturday.
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NBC10 reports that some of Fitzgerald’s family members pulled up to a makeshift memorial at that corner Tuesday afternoon and were there for a few minutes when the gunshots rang out, injuring the teenagers nearby.
The family members immediately left for the vigil, held at the Temple University belltower less than a mile away from Tuesday’s shootings.
According to police, no one was initially arrested after Tuesday’s gunfire and no weapons was recovered on scene.