A shooting at a bus stop in North Philadelphia on Monday afternoon left one teenager dead and four others injured, police said.
Around 3:45 p.m., about 15 to 20 students were at a bus stop in the city’s Ogontu neighborhood when two people walked up and opened fire, said Kevin Bethel, the city’s police chief.
Police said people were boarding a stopped bus when the shooting occurred.
A 17-year-old boy was pronounced dead at the hospital with multiple gunshot wounds to his body, police said. Two 15-year-old boys suffered scratches, and a 49-year-old woman and a 71-year-old woman on the bus were hit.
The older woman was hit in the head and the younger woman was hit in the arm, authorities said, adding that all four were in stable condition.
The bus driver fled for several blocks and the suspects fled, officials said.
The police chief said afternoons are “one of the most dangerous times” for violence to occur in the city after schools close.
But he said “the situation could have been much worse” because the shooting took place at a busy intersection where people boarded buses and at a daycare center across the street.
