A teenager was fatally shot in North Philadelphia on Tuesday morning. The boy was a student at Simon Gratz High School Mastery Charter, which is just two blocks from where the shooting occurred.
A 15-year-old on his way to school Tuesday morning was fatally shot in North Philadelphia, police said, as the streets were crowded with morning commuters.
Just before 7:45 a.m., the teen was near 16th Street and West Hunting Park Avenue in the city’s Nicetown section, when he got into a fight with three others, said Sgt. Eric Gripp of the Police Department. One of the young men pulled out a handgun and shot him one time in the chest, Gripp said. Police rushed him to Temple University Hospital, where he died shortly after.The boy was a tenth grader at Simon Gratz High School Mastery Charter, which is just two blocks from where the shooting occurred, Gripp said.
“This again speaks to the level of gun violence that we continue to see in the city,” Gripp told reporters at the scene. “Our children should be safe — everyone should be safe — but children on their way to school?, Philadelphia school board president, said addressing the city’s gun violence epidemic “takes all hands on deck.”
“These are all our children, and the quicker we act like a village, the quicker we can get control of this situation,” he said.The victims have included:
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