Multiple shootings Saturday evening through Sunday morning across Philadelphia have left several people injured, police said.<\/p>\n
According to the Philadelphia Police Department, one incident happened around 4:34 p.m. on Saturday, April 3, 2026. <\/p>\n
Police said officers responded to the 500 block of Wyoming Avenue after receiving reports of an individual with a weapon at a restaurant. When officers got to the scene, they found that a man had entered the business suffering from gunshot wounds but had left right before police arrived. <\/p>\n
While looking for the victim, police said officers received more information regarding a shooting victim on the 4700 block of Whitaker Avenue. When they got to the next scene, officers found a 20-year-old man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was transported by police to the nearby hospital. <\/p>\n
A short time later, police said a second 20-year-old man was found on the 4700 block of Rorer Street with a gunshot wound to his left thigh. He was also transported to the hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n
Both men are in stable condition, police said. <\/p>\n
According to police, investigators processed the scene on the 4700 block of Rorer Street, and recovered fired cartridge casings and discovered a black Pontiac G3 that had been struck by gunfire. A grey Ford Fusion was also found mid-block after crashing into a parked pickup truck.<\/p>\n
Police have made one apprehension in connection with the incident, but the investigation remains ongoing as authorities work to determine the circumstances surrounding the gunfire.<\/p>\n
Another incident happened around 1:52 a.m. on Sunday, May 3, 2026, along the 2400 block of Welsh Road, according to police. <\/p>\n
In this shooting, police said, investigators believe the gunfire erupted during an argument, though authorities have not yet released specific details regarding the nature of the disagreement.<\/p>\n
The victim, a 25-year-old man, was struck by gunfire in the right leg and taken to a nearby hospital by a private vehicle. Hospital staff placed him in stable condition, police said. <\/p>\n
Police said officers arriving at the reported location of the shooting were unable to locate a crime scene. No arrests have been made, and no weapons have been recovered at this time.<\/p>\n
The next reported shooting happened around 11:40 a.m. on Sunday, May 3. <\/p>\n
Police said officers responded to reports of gunfire on the 2100 block of West Lehigh Avenue. When they got to the scene they found a woman suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. She was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n
No arrests have been made, and no weapons have been recovered at this time in regards to that incident, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Multiple shootings Saturday evening through Sunday morning across Philadelphia have left several people injured, police said. According to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[758,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-182978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-gun-violence","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182978","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=182978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}