What we know after mother, 2 kids shot at graduation party
A mother and her two children were among four people critically injured in a quadruple shooting that erupted as they walked to a high school graduation party in North Philadelphia.
The shots rang out just after 9:30 p.m. Thursday on the 2300 block of North Lambert Street.
According to Chief Inspector Scott Small, surveillance video captured a suspect walking eastbound on Lambert Street before pulling out a gun and firing approximately 10 shots northbound down the block. #philadelphia #fyp
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A mother and her two children are among four people recovering from gunshot wounds they suffered when someone opened fire on an outdoor graduation party last night.
It happened in North Philadelphia just after 9.30 on the 2300 block of North Lambert Street.
Action News reporter Andi McCormick is live at Philadelphia Police Headquarters with the latest on the now ongoing search for the gunman. Andi.
Yeah and Sarah, sources are telling us a potential motive that an argument may have unfolded after a vehicle was driving recklessly near the block.
Just minutes later they say that gunfire erupted.
At least 10 gunshots were fired along the 2300 block of North Lambert Street in North Philadelphia.
It happened around 9.30 last night while a high school graduation party took place.
Residents say the people shot were innocent victims.
It's a tragedy, you know. I mean, it happened. I don't know what to say about it. I'm in shock. I'm still processing it.
This is video of the victims walking towards the party moments before shots were fired.
A 12-year-old girl was struck three times, shot in the stomach, and an 11-year-old boy was shot once in the arm.
Police say a 36-year-old mother was shot in the back. We're also told a 45-year-old man was shot twice in the arm.
All four are in critical condition.
Police believe the shooter walked from 20th Street to the corner of Lambert and Dauphin and it was there that they opened fire.
The shots were fired from about one quarter of the block south from where the party was being held.
I hit the floor and stayed on the floor and then my granddaughter came out here and she's like, Grandma, somebody got shot.
This woman's granddaughter rushed to help the injured.
She was telling them to give her a towel and she was doing the compresses on him to stop the bleeding.
And Christy, among those four victims includes a mother and her two children.
As for who they're looking for, they're looking for a black SUV and somebody wearing dark clothes, including a black hoodie with distinctive white lettering.
For now, reporting live outside of Philadelphia Police Headquarters, Annie McCormick, Channel 6 Action News.
Shooting is always tragic, but especially tragic when it includes our city's youngest residents.
Annie, thank you.