1 Killed, 6 Injured After Shooting At Apartment Complex In Spring Garden

The shooting started just before midnight in the courtyard of the Spring Garden Homes on the 600 block of Perth Place.

WE'RE TOLD THAT HOUSE WASVACANT.NO WORD ON ANY INJURIES.AND MORE BREAKING NEWSOVERNIGHT.A LARGE CRIME SCENE RIGHT NOWAS SEVEN PEOPLE ARE SHOT INPHILADELPHIA'S SPRING GARDENNEIGHBORHOOD.ONE OF THE VICTIMS THERE WE'RETOLD HAS DIED."EYEWITNESS NEWS" REPORTER JANCARABEO IS LIVE AT THE SCENEWITH THE LATEST DETAILS.JAN.Reporter: JANELLE, GOODMORNING.ALL OF THIS ACTIVITY SEEMS TOBE SURROUNDING THE COURTYARDAREA HERE OF THE SPRING GARDENHOMES.IT IS AN APARTMENT COMPLEX INTHIS SECTION OF THE CITY.POLICE TELL US THAT ROUGHLY 50SHOTS WERE FIRED IN THIS AREAVERY EARLY THIS MORNING.SEVEN PEOPLE WERE SHOT.ONE MAN IS NOW IN CRITICALCONDITION AND ONE MAN IS DEAD.YOU CAN SEE LIVE ON THE SCENETHIS MORNING, POLICE REMAINHERE PROCESSING EVIDENCE.HOMICIDE DETECTIVES WILL BEPICKING THIS UP LATER ONTODAY.SO, STILL A VERY ACTIVE SCENEOUT HERE IN SPRING GARDEN.AS YOU MENTIONED, A LARGE AREATO COVER.THEY'RE ACTUALLY TAKING A LOOKAT TWO DIFFERENT AREAS.THE SHOOTING STARTED JUSTBEFORE MIDNIGHT ON THE 600BLOCK OF PERTH PLACE IN SPRINGGARDEN.NOW, AT FIRST POLICE BELIEVEDTHEY HAD SIX VICTIMS.THOSE VICTIMS SHOWED UP INPRIVATE VEHICLES TO TEMPLE ANDJEFFERSON HOSPITAL.ONE MAN IS 56.OUT OF SHOWS SIX VICTIMS ONEIS IN CRITICAL CONDITION, A22-YEAR-OLD MAN SHOT IN THENECK.AS THIS INVESTIGATIONPROGRESSED A COUPLE HOURSLATER AROUND 2:00 A.M.

ASEVENTH VICTIM WAS FOUND LYINGIN A COURTYARD NEARBY ON THE600 BLOCK OF EIGHTH STREET.HE WAS SHOT IN THE FACE ANDPRONOUNCED DEAD A SHORT TIMELATER.POLICE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TODO THIS MORNING AND A LOT OFEVIDENCE TO GO THROUGH, THISAS NEIGHBORS WAKE UP TO THENEWS THAT YET ANOTHER YOUNGMAN IN THIS COMMUNITY HASFALLEN VICTIM TO GUN VIOLENCE.SO SAD.THAT'S ALL I CAN SAY.IT'S JUST SAD.WE -- I GUESS WE NEED TO PRAYMORE.WE KNOW OVER 45 SHOTS WEREFIRED FROM THE SEMI AUTOMATICWEAPON.WE FOUND MULTIPLE PROJECTILES.WE FOUND FOUR VEHICLES STRUCKBY GUNFIRE.ONE VEHICLE STILL HAD ITSENGINE RUNNING.AND NUMEROUS STRIKE MARKS.THE SHELL CASINGS, THE STRIKEMARKS, THE VEHICLES ARE ALL INTHE COURTYARD OF THE SPRINGGARDEN HOMES, MORESPECIFICALLY 600 BLOCK OFPERTH PLACE.WE ALSO FOUND A LARGE AMOUNTOF CASH IN THE COURTYARD.Reporter: BUT AT THISTIME NO MOTIVE FOR THISSHOOTING AND THIS ATTACK.NO DESCRIPTION OF A POSSIBLESUSPECT OR SUSPECTS AND THATVICTIM HAS NOT BEEN IDENTIFIEDBUT HOMICIDE DETECTIVES HAVETHEIR WORK CUT OUT FOR THEM.THEY WILL BE LOOKING FOR EYEWITNESSES AND CAMERAS IN THISAREA.