Police said an investigation is underway following a shooting that injured two men in Philadelphia early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n
According to Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small, just before 7 a.m. on Wednesday, May 27, officers responded to the 600 block of West Tusculum Street after receiving reports of a shooting.<\/p>\n
When officers got to the scene, Small said they found a man suffering from a gunshot wound to his torso and lower extremities, bleeding on the sidewalk. The man, possibly in his 20s, was taken to a nearby hospital and placed in critical condition. <\/p>\n
Small said a second victim, a man also in his 20’s, had been dropped off at the same hospital, suffering from a gunshot wound to his torso. He is in critical condition.<\/p>\n
At the scene, Small said a handgun was found next to the first victim along with 13 shell casings. The private vehicle that had taken the second victim to the hospital also had a gun inside. <\/p>\n
At this time, it is unclear if the weapons found were used in the shooting. <\/p>\n
Small said he hopes that surveillance cameras in the area help them with the investigation. <\/p>\n
Anyone with information regarding this shooting is urged to contact the Philadelphia Police Department’s Shooting Investigation Group at 215-686-8270 or leave an anonymous tip at 215-686-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said an investigation is underway following a shooting that injured two men in Philadelphia early Wednesday morning.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203462,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[758,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-203461","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\/203461","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=203461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}