Gunfire at SW Phila. basketball court injures 6

[Skip_In_Boulder]

Seems these kind of incidents are becoming more and more frequent these days.

SOUTHWEST PHILADELPHIA - August 22, 2011 (WPVI) -- Police say gunfire erupted at a Southwest Philadelphia basketball court during halftime of an adult league game with hundreds of spectators, injuring six people, one critically.

Lt. John Walker of Southwest Detectives says about 500 people were at the 19-and-over league playoff game at Kingsessing Recreation Center at 51st Street and Kingsessing Avenue when shots rang out at about 8:45 p.m. Monday.

He says five men and one woman were taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where one man hit in the stomach was in surgery but the others were stable with injuries to their lower extremities.

The victims in stable condition are described as an 18-year-old male shot in the left leg, a 23-year-old male shot in the left thigh, a 19-year-old female shot in the left leg and right foot, a 19-year-old male shot in the left knee, and a 21-year-old male shot in the right leg.

Walker said at least 11 shots were fired, and another person in the crowd may have returned fire. Police pursued a male who ditched a revolver before escaping, but that gun had not been fired.

Police said no suspects were immediately arrested

http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=news/crime&id=8321149

[Shagbark Hickory]

1. Ah the 2nd ammendment strikes again.

[TheWraith]

2. Uh, no, no more so than the first amendment covers slander, libel, or murder threats.

Criminal activity is not an excuse to restrict people's rights.

[Shagbark Hickory]

3. blabbety blab blah blah. nt

[TheWraith]

7. Thanks for not trying to rebut my points. nt

[RC]

4. The answer obviously is MORE GUNS!

Yeah, why of course. If everybody was armed, then the rest could have shot the shooter before the shooter could have shot anyone,
It's so simple. :sarcasm:

[TheWraith]

6. If anyone ever seriously suggested that, maybe you'd have a point to make.

As it is, you're exploiting the attempted murder of some kids to push an agenda.

[RC]

8. I got this idea from the local gun nutz here.

So bite me.

[LeftyMom]

5. Time to move in with their aunties and their uncles in Bel Air? nt