4 people shot, including 3 teens, on SEPTA bus in Fairmount Park, police say

Philadelphia constabulary are investigating shooting involving SEPTA autobus successful Fairmount Park

Philadelphia constabulary are investigating shooting involving SEPTA autobus successful Fairmount Park 02:20

Four people, including 3 teenage boys, were changeable portion riding a SEPTA autobus successful Philadelphia's Fairmount Park vicinity Saturday evening, according to police.

Investigators were notified astir a shooting conscionable aft 6:30 p.m. successful the country of 33rd Street and Girard Avenue. After they arrived, Philadelphia constabulary officers, arsenic good arsenic SEPTA constabulary officers, recovered aggregate radical had been changeable connected a Route 15 bus. 

Inspector D F Pace with the Philadelphia Police Department said the 4 victims included: 2 16-year-old boys and a 14-year-old boy, who were taken to the hospital, and a 39-year-old woman, who was treated for a graze coiled connected the scene. All of the victims are successful unchangeable condition, according to Pace.

CBS Philadelphia

Authorities judge a man, perchance successful his 40s, confronted a radical of juveniles toward the backmost of the SEPTA bus, pulled a weapon from his bag, and opened fire, striking the 4 people. The nonstop motive for the shooting is unclear. Around 30 radical were connected committee the autobus astatine the clip of the shooting, Pace said.

"This was an highly frightening incidental for our customers and the SEPTA autobus operator, and SEPTA Police volition proceed moving intimately with Philadelphia Police connected the investigation," a spokesperson for the transit bureau told CBS News Philadelphia.

No arrests person been made successful the case.

"Violence successful immoderate signifier is unacceptable," Pace said, "and we're doing perfectly everything we tin arsenic a constabulary section to guarantee the nationalist information of those that are walking our streets and riding our nationalist transportation."

Anyone with accusation related to this shooting is asked to telephone the Shooting Investigation Group astatine 215‑686‑8270.

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