{"id":287465,"date":"2026-09-16T17:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287465\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T17:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T17:30:11","slug":"2-teens-wounded-in-north-philadelphia-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/287465\/","title":{"rendered":"2 teens wounded in North Philadelphia shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two teenagers were hospitalized after gunfire erupted Tuesday night in <a href=\"https:\/\/metrophiladelphia.com\/north-philadelphia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">North Philadelphia<\/a>, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>At around 10:30 p.m., officers responded to a report of a shooting on the 1800 block of N. Lambert Street, according to police. They found the victims on the nearby 1800 block of N. Woodstock, law enforcement officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said an 18-year-old man was shot once in the right side of his abdomen, while a 17-year-old boy was grazed just above his right hip. Both were taken to Temple University Hospital and are expected to survive, the PPD stated.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests were made in the immediate aftermath of the shooting, and there was no word on a possible motive. Anyone with information is asked to call the police tip line at 215-686-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n<p>Through Sept. 15, 508 people had been shot in Philadelphia, a decrease of 29% compared to the same date last year, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillypolice.com\/crime-data\/crime-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">PPD data<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Counseling, peer support, and victim advocacy services are available for victims, family members, and others affected by gun violence. Go to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/metrophiladelphia.com\/stories\/resources-for-victims-of-gun-violence-in-philadelphia,96902\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">metrophiladelphia.com\/gun-violence-resources<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/metrophiladelphia.com\/stories\/philadelphia-police-officer-fired-olney-hit-and-run,155224\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia police officer to be fired for actions in deadly Olney hit-and-run<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tKeywords<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tNorth Philadelphia,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Philadelphia Police,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Crime,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Gun Violence,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Public Safety,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Shootings\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two teenagers were hospitalized after gunfire erupted Tuesday night in North Philadelphia, authorities said. At around 10:30 p.m.,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31,758,221,69,71,70,2245,294,6803],"class_list":["post-287465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-crime","tag-gun-violence","tag-north-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-philadelphia-police","tag-public-safety","tag-shootings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287465","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=287465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}