Three dead, ten injured in Philadelphia mass shooting during holiday weekend block party
mass shooting
in
Philadelphia
's Grays Ferry neighborhood early Monday(July 7) left three people dead and 10 others injured, including three minors, in one of the city's deadliest acts of gun violence this year.
Police say the
shooting
occurred around 1 am on the 1500 block of South Etting Street during what they described as an impromptu block party involving dozens of people. More than 100 rounds were fired, striking cars, homes, and people on the street.
Among those killed was 24-year-old Azir Harris, a wheelchair user who survived a 2019 drive-by shooting and had since become a father.
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'I carried him when he was a baby. I carried him through his first incident, and I couldn't pick him up this time,' his father, Troy Harris, told FOX 29. 'Put these guns down, man. There's a better way to solve it.'
The two other fatalities were a 19-year-old man shot in the head and a 23-year-old man shot in the chest. A fourth victim, a 19-year-old man shot twice in the head, remains in critical condition. Police confirmed three minors, two 17-year-old boys and a 15-year-old girl, were among the wounded.
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One person has been taken into custody with a weapon. Investigators continue to review
surveillance
footage and are urging witnesses to come forward.
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Commissioner Kevin Bethel said officers recovered dozens of shell casings and believe multiple shooters were involved. Surveillance footage captured a barrage of gunfire, and at least one weapon used was modified with an illegal switch that converted it into a fully automatic firearm.
'This is coward stuff,' Bethel said during a press briefing. 'Individuals just shooting randomly into houses, into cars, at children. This is cowardly, wannabe thug stuff.'
The shooting is Philadelphia's second mass shooting over the July Fourth weekend. Two days earlier, eight people were wounded in a separate incident outside a nightclub in South Philadelphia.
Though Philadelphia has seen an overall 12 percent decrease in homicides this year, Bethel stressed the city will not tolerate a return to past levels of violence. 'We are not going back to the times when we had 500-plus homicides,' he said. 'That is not happening.'
Community members say the trauma is rippling through the neighborhood. Tyrique Glasgow, a local youth mentor with the Young Chances Foundation, said he canceled his summer camp Monday because children were too afraid to leave their homes.
'I feel frustration,' Glasgow said. 'But it's really about understanding what we did yesterday and what we can do tomorrow.'
Police continue to investigate and say they are following 'significant leads.'
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