Two men are hospitalized, police said, after they were shot while sitting in a vehicle in Philadelphia’s Frankford section early Tuesday. <\/p>\n
According to police, officers were dispatched to a hospital in Philly’s Frankford community at about 1:24 a.m. on Tuesday, after two men walked into the medical facility after being shot. <\/p>\n
The men, both 19-years-old, told officers that they were sitting in a vehicle near the intersection of Tackawanna and Fillmore streets that evening when they were engaged in a conversation with two other unknown men, officials said. <\/p>\n
However, as they spoke, police said, a third unknown man approached the vehicle and knocked on the vehicle’s driver’s side window.<\/p>\n
Shortly after knocking on the window, officials said, the unidentified gunman produced a firearm and fired into the vehicle, striking both men. <\/p>\n
The men then drove themselves to the hospital for treatment. <\/p>\n
One victim, police said, had been shot in both arms and his right shoulder while the other suffered a gunshot wound to his right knee. <\/p>\n
Police said they were still working to determine a motive in this incident and no arrest was immediately made. <\/p>\n
An investigation into the shooting, officials said, is underway. <\/p>\n
This is a breaking news story. It will be updated as new information becomes available. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men are hospitalized, police said, after they were shot while sitting in a vehicle in Philadelphia’s Frankford…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11370,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-103956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-frankford","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}