Philadelphia Police are investigating at least three separate shootings that happened within the span of a few hours across the city on Saturday.<\/p>\n
In North Philadelphia, police responded to calls from North 15th and West Boston streets around 8 p.m.<\/p>\n
When they arrived, officers found a 42-year-old man inside a blue car suffering from a gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n
He died at the hospital.<\/p>\n
Authorities say they are looking for a tall man wearing a gray and black top with black pants.<\/p>\n
About an hour prior, police were called to a shooting in Grays Ferry.<\/p>\n
A 16-year-old boy was shot in the ankle.<\/p>\n
The victim told authorities he was walking with a friend at 31st and Tasker streets when he heard a gunshot.<\/p>\n
He ran to 32nd and Wharton streets where he was located by police.<\/p>\n
Authorities are still searching for the gunman.<\/p>\n
Police were also dispatched to another shooting at the intersection of West Wensley and North American streets in North Philadelphia around 5:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
There they found a man who had been shot in the stomach and back.<\/p>\n
He was taken to Temple University Hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n
No word on his condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Police are investigating at least three separate shootings that happened within the span of a few hours…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45478,221,69,71,70,2245],"class_list":["post-114681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-black-pants","tag-north-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114681","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=114681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}