{"id":206501,"date":"2026-05-30T22:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T22:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206501\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T22:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T22:20:08","slug":"2-philadelphia-shootings-just-minutes-apart-leave-2-men-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/206501\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Philadelphia shootings just minutes apart leave 2 men injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two men were critically injured in two separate shootings just minutes apart across Philadelphia Friday night, police say.<\/p>\n<p>The first shooting happened in the city&#8217;s Hunting Park neighborhood at 9:49 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities say officers responded to the 1000 block of West Lycoming Street of a report of a shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Police say a 55-year-old man was approached in a park by a male suspect who announced a robbery and displayed a gun. The victim, who is licensed to carry a gun, drew his own weapon, and both men exchanged gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived, they found the victim next to a black Mercedes, suffering from gunshot wounds to the left elbow and the left side of his abdomen. Officers rushed him to Temple Hospital where he was listed in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Police say no arrest has been made. A gun was recovered at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Just minutes later at 9:52 p.m., Philadelphia police and Philadelphia Housing Authority police responded to a report of a person with a gun on the 2100 block of Bailey Terrace Street in South Philly.<\/p>\n<p>Emergency crews took a 26-year-old man with gunshot wounds to the abdomen and arm to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was listed in critical but stable condition.<\/p>\n<p>Police \u00a0recovered more than a dozen spent shell casings from the scene, including six 5.56-caliber rifle casings, six 9 mm casings, two .40-caliber casings and two .357-caliber casings. Police also recovered a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Chopper 3 was over the scene as officers searched the area with flashlights.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/pic.jpg#.jpeg\" alt=\"2 Philadelphia shootings minutes apart leave two men injured \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Philadelphia<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been made, and the suspect remains unknown at this time, police say.<\/p>\n<p>Police urge anyone with information regarding either incident to contact the Shooting Investigation Group at 215-686-8270.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men were critically injured in two separate shootings just minutes apart across Philadelphia Friday night, police say.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[758,22652,221,69,71,70,220,645],"class_list":["post-206501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-gun-violence","tag-hunting-park","tag-north-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-shooting","tag-south-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206501","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=206501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}