3 dead, 6 injured after mass shooting at a party in West Philadelphia
Police said that it appeared there were multiple shooters.
Three people are dead and six injured after a shooting in the Carroll Park section of West Philadelphia.
Police said the shooting occurred at a party with more than 100 people in attendance.
There have been 142 homicides in Philadelphia in 2024, down 39% from this time last year.
This is the third shooting in which at least five people were shot to happen in Philadelphia this year.
Recap: 3 people dead, 6 injured after mass shooting erupted at a party in West Philly
At least three people are dead and six more are injured after a mass shooting broke out at a party in West Philadelphia early Sunday morning.
More than 100 people were attending a cookout on the 1200 block of North Alden Street in the Carroll Park neighborhood when officers responded to reports of a person with a gun just after 2 a.m. Upon arriving, police said, officers found multiple people suffering from gunshot wounds.
A 33-year-old man — who Chief Inspector D.F. Pace told reporters was “shot at very close range” and likely targeted — was pronounced dead at the scene. A 23-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds died shortly after being taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. The third victim was 29 years old, said police, and was also pronounced dead at Penn Presbyterian after being shot in the abdomen.
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— Beatrice Forman and Michelle Myers
'It's normally quiet'
Neighbors did not wish to talk.
Those that did said the deadly shooting came as a surprise.
“It’s normally quiet, said Tyrese Marshall, who was sweeping up some litter outside the Masjid Ibn Taymiyyah community center down the street from the shooting. “Normally just kids out playing, and people sitting out on the stairs. There’s never anything going on like that.”
— Mike Newall
How common is gun violence in the Carroll Park area?
Compared to some other sections of the city, the neighborhood of Carrol Park — a stretch of West Philadelphia that shares its name with a public park on Girard Avenue between 58th and 59th Street — is not known as a shooting hotspot, police sources said.
The area is not a hotspot for gang violence, they said. As of Friday, the two zip codes making up the neighborhood had seen 24 shootings victims since the start of 2024, according to a dashboard kept by the Office of the City Controller.
One of those happened just three blocks from where Sunday’s shooting occurred. In June, a 17-year-old was shot multiple times on the 1500 block of North Alden Street.
Rally against gun violence planned for less than a week after shooting
Sunday’s mass shooting comes less than week before a pre-planned rally against gun violence.
On Saturday, gun violence survivors and reform advocates are set to gather Kingsessing’s Salt & Light church to advocate for long-term solutions.
The church is just five blocks away from where authorities say Kimbrady Carriker began gunning down people at random on July 3, 2023, killing five people in one of the city’s deadliest mass shootings.
Injured victims are all in stable condition
The six surviving victims of Sunday’s mass shooting in West Philadelphia are in stable condition, according to the Philadelphia Police Department.
Officers responded to reports of a person with a gun the 1200 block of North Alden Street just after 2 a.m., police said. Upon arriving, they found multiple people suffering from gunshot wounds.
A 33-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene, according to police, while a 23-year-old died of gunshot wounds to chest, leg, and stomach shortly after being transported to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. A third man, 29, also was pronounced dead at Penn Presbyterian after being shot in the abdomen.
Families wait for more information outside Penn Presbyterian
Crowds of people gathered outside the emergency room entrance of Penn Presbyterian Medical Center to wait for word of their loved ones.
Three people — ages 23, 29, and 33 — died during the shooting, said Deputy Police Commissioner Frank Vanore. The six surviving victims range from stable to critical condition, according to Vanore, and are all men between 23 and 33 years old.
— Beatrice Forman
This is the third shooting in which five or more people have been shot in 2024
There have been 142 homicides to date in 2024, according to data kept by the Philadelphia police department, down 39% from this time last year. Before the Sunday mass shooting, there had been 600 gun violence victims in 2024. One hundred twenty-nine of them died, according to a dashboard kept by the Office of the City Controller.
This is the third shooting in which at least five people were shot during the same incident to happen in Philadelphia this year.
The most recent occurred on July 4 in Kingsessing, when a gunman opened fire at a “pop-up” party, killing 19-year-old Maurice Quann as his party got caught in the middle of a longstanding gang feud, according to police sources. Eight other people were also shot — all between the ages of 14 and 24 — and an arrest has yet to be made.
Map of the shooting
The shooting took place on the 1200 block of North Alden Street in the Carroll Park section of the city in West Philadelphia.
3 dead, 6 injured in Carroll Park shooting
Three men were killed and six others were wounded when a shootout erupted at a late night gathering in West Philadelphia, according to police.
Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore said shots were fired around 2 a.m. on the 1200 block of North Alden Street, where dozens of people had been attending a cookout.
The victims who died were ages 23, 29, and 33, Vanore said. The surviving victims, all men, were between ages 23 and 33, he said. Victims injured initially ranged from stable to critical condition, according to police, who also recovered a firearm from the scene of the party. Police initially reported seven people had been injured and corrected the number to six.