Daily News | A stray bullet pierces window of a N. Philly school and enters classroom
bullet pierced the window of a classroom Tuesday afternoon, terrifying students and staff working inside and sending the school into lockdown.
Virgil Sheppard, president of Hope Partnership for Education, a private middle school and adult education center, said no students were injured in the shooting incident, which happened around 2 p.m.Sheppard said the school immediately went into lockdown mode after the bullet entered a second-floor classroom of the building on N. 11th Street, not far from Lehigh Avenue.
“We believe in a strong sense of community,” said Sheppard, whose school offers tuition-free education to city students from disadvantaged households. Though the city’s gun violence crisis means many Hope students had already experienced gun-related trauma before Tuesday, the incident shook the school, he said.Outside the school building, Sheppard said he saw about 80 shell casings. Officials had not told him of any motive for the shootout.Authorities had no immediate information about how many people were involved in the shooting, or how many guns were used. No arrests had been made.
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