Nine People Shot At Mantua Barbecue
Nine people were shot, including a baby and two children, during a barbecue Saturday night in Philadelphia's Mantua section, police said.
The shotgun blasts left the three juveniles and three of the six male adult victims in stable condition at West Philadelphia hospitals late Saturday night, police said. Two other male victims arrived at Hahnemann University Hospital with minor wounds and were to be released, authorities. The condition of a last victim could not be immediately learned.
The shooting took place about 9:50 p.m. near 41st and Ogden Streets in the 16th District, authorities said.
Detectives said it appeared that the barbecue - involving as many as 50 people - had been fired upon by one shooter, who fired two buckshot blasts from a shotgun. He fired from the street, they said, but may have arrived or left in a car. "There were a lot of people out there," Lt. John Walker, of Southwest Detectives, said Saturday night, saying the toll could have been even higher.
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