Suspect in custody after shots fired at 15th and Market SEPTA station
No one was injured, police said, and the suspect was arrested by transit police at the 11th Street station.
Philadelphia police are investigating after shots were fired on the concourse at SEPTA’s 15th and Market Street station Sunday night.
The incident happened just before 10 p.m. in the concourse’s southwest staircase on 15th Street near the Clothespin sculpture, SEPTA spokesperson Andrew Busch said.
Busch said there “were several gunshots” but confirmed that no one was shot and that no injuries were reported. It is unclear what circumstances led to the gunfire.
SEPTA police detained the suspect at the 11th Street station, Busch said, and recovered the weapon. The identity of the suspect has yet to be released.
The incident comes as SEPTA transit police consider striking as early as Monday afternoon after the transit agency failed to reach a contract agreement with Fraternal Order of Transit Police Lodge 109 by the deadline. The transit police officers are asking for a pay increase amid a staffing shortage and upticks in antisocial behaviors — like smoking and turnstile jumping — but not violent crimes.
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SEPTA services will not be disrupted if unionized transit police strike. “Close to 50″ nonunion police supervisors will patrol the system with help from the Philadelphia Police Department and Pennsylvania State Police, Busch said.
“We will be positioned to maintain police presence on the system and get priority responses to emergency incidents,” Busch said. “Investigations like that into last night’s shooting will not be interrupted.”
A previous version of this story noted that there was an arrest made by Philadelphia Police.