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by n5wmk
Fri Oct 25, 2019 5:56 pm
Forum: The Crime Blotter
Topic: Re: Failure to Stop X 15
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Re: Re: Failure to Stop X 15

This link quoted below:
https://www.newsweek.com/gun-crime-man- ... ia-1467719
A man in Philadelphia who was shot more than a dozen times managed to survive and get himself to a hospital nearly two and a half miles away.

Police responded to calls about a shooting in the 1700 block of Tilghman Street in Kensington in the north of the city in the early hours of Friday morning.

When officers arrived at the scene, they found 23 spent shell casings, according to 6ABC. Soon afterwards, they were informed by the city's Temple University Hospital about a 27-year-old victim who had walked into the emergency room with a number of gunshot wounds.

Police said that the man had come from the scene of the shootings. The hospital is around around 2.4 miles from the crime scene, according to Google Maps. He is receiving surgery and it is thought that he will survive.

Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small told the network: "These were large caliber shell casings."

"For him to be hit that many times throughout his body, even though he is critical and is expected to survive, and he walked into the hospital. That's pretty miraculous," he added.

"He walked into the emergency room. Right now he is undergoing surgery. He is in critical condition but although he was shot multiple times, he is expected to survive," he added, according to CBS Philly.

Investigators are looking at footage from nearby surveillance cameras and as yet have no suspects or motive for the shootings and have appealed to the public for more information.

In a statement to Newsweek, Philadelphia police detailed the wounds of the victim which included five on the right side, two on his left hip, three on the upper chest, right shoulder, one on his right side neck, and three on his left forearm.

"The victim is in critical but stable condition. The scene was held, no weapons recovered and no arrest was made."

"This investigation is active and ongoing with the East Detective Division," the statement added.
I wonder what Inspector Small considers large caliber shell casings? Even so, that guy had a lot of new openings in his body.

Amazing!

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