A gasoline station worker and a 12-year-old boy had been amongst these shot in Philly in a single day, police say

A 67-year-old man was fatally shot early Tuesday morning throughout a theft at a Tacony gasoline station, in keeping with police, one in every of a number of violent incidents throughout the town in a single day.

Elsewhere, authorities stated, a 12-year-old boy was shot inside an Olney residence late Monday — presumably by one other youngster who obtained maintain of an unsecured gun — and two folks had been killed in separate homicides: a 25-year-old lady in East Germantown, and a 25-year-old man in North Philadelphia.

Within the gasoline station theft, police stated the sufferer — whom they didn’t title — was shot as soon as within the again round 4 a.m. after three males got here into the store the place the person had been working the money register.

Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore stated the crime was captured on video, and that it confirmed two males lingering within the retailer for a couple of minutes earlier than a 3rd man got here in, approached the register, and fired a shot beneath a plexiglass barrier and on the sufferer.

All three males then compelled their method into the secured space behind the register, Vanore stated, stealing the register and fleeing with it.

The sufferer was pronounced lifeless on the scene round 4:10 a.m., police stated.

The store was quiet Tuesday morning, and few neighbors had been keen to discuss the crime. Police didn’t launch details about the suspects, however stated none had been caught.

Earlier Monday, simply after 8 p.m. in Olney, a 12-year-old boy was shot in his left aspect whereas inside a home on the 5100 block of North eighth Avenue, police stated. He was hospitalized in steady situation.

Vanore stated it appeared as if the boy had been shot by a youthful youngster who’d gotten maintain of a firearm. However detectives had been nonetheless searching for to find out whose gun it was and the way it fell into the fingers of the kid, Vanore stated. Nobody had been charged as of Tuesday morning.

Round 6 p.m. Monday, police stated, 25-year-old Kendra Johnson was fatally shot inside a home on the 5500 block of Crowley Avenue in East Germantown. She was pronounced lifeless about 20 minutes later.

Nobody had been arrested as of Tuesday morning, however Vanore stated detectives had been investigating the chance that the taking pictures was an act of home violence.

An hour earlier than that crime, police stated, simply earlier than 5 p.m., Dawson Johnson, 25, was fatally shot on the 2100 block of North twentieth Avenue in North Philadelphia. Police stated nobody had been arrested, and no weapon was recovered.

By way of Monday evening, police stated, 14 folks had been killed in homicides this yr, down from 27 by way of the identical date final yr.

Jamal Johnson, an anti-violence advocate who’s gone on starvation strikes and marches to Washington, D.C. to lift consciousness in regards to the metropolis’s taking pictures disaster, stated exterior the Tacony gasoline station Tuesday morning that Philadelphia’s degree of gunfire nonetheless remained unacceptable.

“We’re not getting sufficient motion” from metropolis leaders to deal with the disaster, he stated standing on the aspect of Torresdale Avenue, whereas holding an indication that stated “Cease Capturing Individuals.”