7 wounded, two critically, in two drive-by shootings in North Philly neighborhood: ‘It’s senseless and very scary.’

Seven people were injured, two critically, in what a witness described as a couple of drive-by shootings early Saturday morning in North Philadelphia’s Hartranft neighborhood.

The shootings took place around 3:30 a.m. in the area of Fotterall Square at 11th and Cumberland Streets, police said. Among the injured, one victim was shot in the chest and another in the back, police said.

State police and agents from the Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms Bureau were at the scene throughout Saturday morning. Chalk circles to mark where bullet casings had fallen covered the corner at 11th and Cumberland, while investigators canvassed the 2500 block of North Jessup Street.

A teenager who had been attending a party on the block that night said a car had circled the block several times before someone inside opened fire on the corner.

Then the car pulled up outside a house on Jessup Street and, again, someone inside fired at a group of partygoers on the front steps, the teen said.

One girl stumbled into the house, screaming for help. “I didn’t know what was wrong with her, and then she collapsed,” said a witness who did not want to be identified out of concern for her safety.

Then they realized the girl, said to be 17, had been shot in the chest and called police as other partygoers fled, screaming, down the block.

Some neighbors on the block said parties are a regular occurrence at homes at the end of the street near Fotterall Square, and some have called police to break up the gatherings.

Still, said Kareem Nixon, who lives up the block: “I’ve never known it to get like where it ended up — in a shooting. It’s just kids having fun until this happens. It’s senseless and very scary.”

The block had also been rattled by a recent homicide at the other end of the street, neighbors said.

All of the victims were being treated at Temple University Hospital.

This is a developing story and will be updated.