Shooting near Philadelphia concert wounds two police officers
By Kanishka Singh
(Reuters) -Two Philadelphia cops have been shot close to the Benjamin Franklin Parkway late on Monday as 1000’s of individuals celebrated a Fourth of July live performance and fireworks present with the gang scattering in panic when pictures have been fired.
The capturing got here hours after a gunman on a rooftop opened hearth on households waving flags and youngsters driving bikes at a Fourth of July parade within the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, the place six folks have been killed and over 36 have been wounded.
Each officers in Philadelphia have been launched from hospital after struggling non-life threatening accidents, Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney stated. Police have been looking for the shooter.
Video from the incident confirmed tons of of individuals working from the Benjamin Franklin Parkway after pictures have been fired.
Kenney stated his administration was “pleading with lawmakers” to cease the “circulation of weapons into our metropolis.”
“Our traditions can not and won’t be ruined by the scourge of gun violence,” he added.
The gunfire broke out late on Monday close to the Philadelphia Museum of Artwork on the ultimate day of a competition with a lot of folks watching a fireworks present after a live performance.
“There’s a safety incident on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway,” emergency authorities stated, referring to the capturing.
Police instructed folks in surrounding buildings to shelter in place.
“I did not hear the pictures, however the cops have been like, ‘Run, run, run,'” one lady informed an NBC affiliate.
One officer sustained a graze wound to the top and the opposite a gunshot wound to the fitting shoulder, based on NBC10.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Modifying by Kim Coghill and Raju Gopalakrishnan)
