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Philadelphia shooting. Content Warning.
we're staying on top of a breaking news story a mass shooting in Philadelphia's king-sessing neighborhood we learned overnight police found a fifth victim who died in total we are told the gunman shot seven people including two children it was a horrifying scene the gunman was wearing a bulletproof vest while he went on that deadly Killing Spree the shooting starting around 8 30 last night in the area of 56th Street and Chester Avenue a guy with a long run down that was police radio as the chaotic scene unfolded officers put their own lives in danger engaging the shooter Wally was firing with a rifle two people are in custody this morning for the latest let's go on over to action news reporter Corey Davis he's live with what we know as of this morning on what has happened Tammy Matt good morning yeah it's a fluid situation the total number of those injured changing a couple of times but once again seven people shot were being told by police five of them dead two injured the two were the two who are injured uh the two who survived rather uh are ages 2 and 13 years old I want to give you a look behind us here where we are so the streets are now back open this is Frazier Street you're looking at this is like halfway between 56 and 57th but Fraser Street is where this all ended police say the suspect he was loaded with ammunition and had protective gear on take a listen to what commissioner Outlaw says in officers encountered when they came came upon him our officers were able to apprehend the mill in the rear alley of 1600 Frazier Street and when they did this male was wearing a bulletproof vest with multiple magazines in the vest he also had a scanner and an AR style rifle and a handgun that scanner the commissioner mentioned is a police scanner the listening to radio traffic so this all started around 8 30 last night in the area of 56 and Chester Street here in the Kingsessing section of Philadelphia police say people called 9-1-1 others flagged down officers were being told those officers found gunshot victims and began preparing to scoop them up in patrol cars to rush into the hospital that's when we're being told the officers heard multiple gunshots going off they ran toward that gunfire and were told officers found the 40-year-old suspect they ran after him while he was still shooting officers say they were able to Corner him in the back alley along the 1600 block of Fraser Street that's when they approached him while he was wearing that bulletproof vest carrying the loaded magazines a police scanner the arrow style rifle and the handgun police were able to take him into custody without any further injury I want to give you a look at this video too it was an emotional scene at Penn Presbyterian Hospital family members of the victims who died finding out the bad news we aren't showing them out of respect for their privacy but I can tell you they were very emotional and devastated in all police once again saying seven people were shot five were dead two injured two of the survivors are children ages 2 and 13 they are stable this morning the five people who died range in ages possibly between 20 and 59 years old so the final victim that police found the the fifth victim who died they say that he was found about four hours later in the living room of a home on 56th Street it happened when that victim's father came home and discovered his son on the living room floor with multiple gunshot wounds investigators say they believe that homicide is connected because the shell casings in that home match the shell casings uh the size and caliber of the shell casings found out here in the street another thing is officers also took a second person into custody saying that they believed that a man picked up a gun during all of this and fired shots toward that initial shooter so now two people in custody but now reporting live here in king-size and Corey Davis Channel 6 Action News thank you Corey and it was a chaotic scene leading up to the moment police took the suspected shooter into custody one woman told Action News her grandchild's father was one of the victims I just came to get my grandbaby and my daughter and take him to the hospital and I came back my house is in a crime scene this is that I can't even go in the house getting into a car just walking down the street I think that the man ran up and just started shooting people that was in the outside so imagine if it was the fourth and everybody out it's just not safe anywhere
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