North Philadelphia shooting leaves 3 injured after nearly 2 dozen shots were fired, police say – CBS News

North Philadelphia shooting leaves 3 injured after nearly 2 dozen shots were fired, police say  CBS News

Three people were injured when nearly two dozen shots were fired at a North Philadelphia home Wednesday morning, police said.Police said the shooting occurred inside and outside a home around 10 a.m. on the 2800 block of North 20th Street. Two women and a man were riddled with bullets.Authorities said a 49-year-old woman was shot 11 times and a 29-year-old man was shot three times in the leg. They were both taken to a local hospital in stable condition.A 27-year-old woman who was shot six times was also taken to the hospital in critical condition.The shooting left neighbors shaken and raised broader concerns about gun violence and safety in the community."It's a tragedy," a relative of the victims said.The relative asked not to be identified.

She said she arrived at the scene after the shooting and saw bullet casings and blood on the street."Bullet casings, blood. That's pretty much all I gotta say," she said. "The streets of Philadelphia. We need help. We need some help. I just hope that everybody recovers."For some residents, the violence is frightening. For others, it has become an all-too-familiar part of life in the neighborhood."It's not surprising," Arlacey Chambers, who has lived in the neighborhood for eight years, said. "You witness people get shot all the time."Chambers said she has witnessed gun violence before,