Nine people were wounded, five critically, Saturday night when shooters emerged from a car and fired into a crowd on a busy street in Kensington, police said.

At least 40 shots were fired during the incident, which happened at 10:42 p.m. near Kensington and Allegheny Avenues, said First Deputy Police Commissioner John Stanford.

He said that “three or four people” had jumped out of the car, and then shots were fired into a group of people standing on the south side of Allegheny, near the entrance to the Market-Frankford Line. He did not specify how many people were involved in the actual shooting before the group got back into the car and drove away.

Police had not yet established a motive and hadn’t recovered any weapons, Stanford said. Police didn’t provide the make of the vehicle.

Officers took the victims to area hospitals, he said. Five were reported in critical condition, police said, the other four were in stable condition. The victims — eight men and one woman — ranged in age from 23 to 40, police said.

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— Chris Palmer

All nine people shot in Saturday night’s incident at Kensington and Allegheny were seriously wounded, with five of them in in critical condition, police said.

Police said the eight men and one woman ranged in age from 23 to 40.

All were taken to area hospitals by police. In addition to the five critically wounded, four were reported in stable condition, police said.

— Anthony R. Wood

Police said they had not yet established a motive for the shootings, haven’t recovered any weapons, and didn’t know the make of the car the shooters were in.

Police said that “three or four” people jumped out of the car and fired into the crowd on the south side of Allegheny Avenue. However, they didn’t know how many of them had fired the shots.

First Deputy Commissioner John Stanford said that narcotics officers who were patrolling in the area heard the shots and responded to the scene.

The shootings occurred at an intersection notorious for drug activity and gun violence, and an Inquirer analysis last year documented that hundreds of shootings had occurred in a five-year period within a half mile of where Saturday night’s incident occurred.

At a news briefing Stanford urged people in the area who knew anything about the incident to share information with police.

— Chris Palmer, Anthony R. Wood

Saturday was the 60th day of the year in which at least 10 total people were shot in Philadelphia. For comparison, the city had only eight days in 2019 in which it recorded double-digit shooting victims.

As of Thursday, the most recent day the data was available, the city had surpassed 2,000 shooting victims, including 417 fatalities.

While homicides are 4% below last year’s pace, shootings remain ahead.

At the scene in Kensington early Sunday, State Rep. Amen Brown, a West Philadelphia Democrat, said the ongoing shootings crisis a was “a direct result of poor city leadership,” criticizing Mayor Jim Kenney, City Council, and District Attorney Larry Krasner.

”It’s not going to stop until everybody just finally decided to work together, and we stand with law enforcement to really solve this problem,” he said.

— Chris Palmer, Dylan Purcell

Nine people were wounded, two critically, Saturday night when shooters fired into a crowd on the street in Kensington, police said.

The shots were fired from a car occupied by “three or four” people near Kensington and Allegheny Avenues, said First Deputy Police Commissioner John Stanford.

He said at least 40 shots were fired.

Two of the victims were in critical condition, and the conditions of the others were unknown.

The shooting happened at 10:42 p.m. Saturday.

— Chris Palmer, Anthony R. Wood

Police confirm nine people were shot, two critically.

— Chris Palmer

Philadelphia Police are responding to reports of multiple people shot near Kensington and Allegheny Avenues in the city’s Kensington section.

There was no immediate word on how many people had been shot or their conditions, though 6ABC and other TV news outlets reported at least nine people had been shot.

Allegheny is blocked off by crime scene tape from Kensington Avenue to Potter Street. At least 20 police officers are at the scene, and there are at least 35 evidence markers in the middle of Allegheny.

— Chris Palmer, Erin McCarthy