Gunman Dead After SEPTA Transit Officer, 2 Women Shot In Philadelphia's Frankford Section, Police Say

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Neighbors described hearing a barrage of bullets rip through their neighborhood. 'This is out of control when we got babies on the blocks. We got families that live here. And you're just running around shooting people?' MattPetrillo reports

“Our thoughts and prayers are with this brave SEPTA police officer who sustained this injury,” Gripp said, “and here we are again on another night in our city and just, this completely and totally unacceptable and reckless gun violence nearly took three innocent people’s lives. We’re so grateful that it wasn’t worse than it was.”

Neighbors were frightened and described hearing a barrage of bullets rip through their neighborhood during that gun battle. “You just heard pow, pow, pow, like somebody had machine guns or grenades or something just back and forth. And then the cops came,” Nola Brady said. said. Nola Brady was getting into her truck, about to leave for work Wednesday evening when a hail of gunfire erupted just steps away in Frankford.

“Everybody is just ducking and there’s kids, telling them to run. Then they’re shooting at the cops again and here go the helicopters. It was just crazy,” Brady said.

 

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