7-month-old boy wounded in Holmesburg shooting
The baby was hospitalized in stable condition, police said. The shooting happened on Meridian Street near Frankford Avenue.
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A 7-month-old boy was hospitalized in stable condition after being shot in the leg Thursday evening on a street in the city’s Holmesburg section, police said.
The shooting occurred around 5:50 p.m. on the 4000 block of Meridian Street near Frankford Avenue, police said.
The infant was taken by private vehicle to Nazareth Hospital in Northeast Philadelphia, and then was transferred by police to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital. Chief Inspector Scott Small said a resident on the block drove the baby to the hospital.
The baby was expected to be transported to Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
Video surveillance showed the baby’s mother and father hanging out on the block when an unknown assailant walked up and started shooting, and then fled the scene, Small said.
The parents apparently fled without the baby and were not located until an hour after the shooting, Small said.
“That was unusual,” Small said.
Police recovered two spent shell casings from the scene.