A long-running neighborhood feud in Philadelphia’s Tacony section boiled over before dawn Thursday, leaving a 34-year-old woman wounded and two people in police custody, including her own son.
Police say the woman was shot on the 7100 block of Walker Street near Wellington Street around 2:30 a.m. and was taken to a hospital, where she was listed in stable condition. Officers later detained a woman suspected in the shooting and also took the victim’s son into custody on separate gun charges.
According to NBC10, Chief Inspector Scott Small said the victim was hit in the lower abdomen. Investigators tracked down a woman in her early 20s at a nearby address and recovered a firearm from her when she was taken into custody. At the scene, police collected 11 spent shell casings from two different calibers, which raised the possibility that more than one weapon was fired and that the incident may have involved an exchange of gunfire.
As reported by 6abc, the victim told officers she was shot by a woman with whom she has had an ongoing dispute for years. Police said the suspected shooter was taken into custody and that the case remains under active investigation. As of the latest updates, officials had not said whether formal charges had been filed against the alleged shooter.
Evidence and police actions
Investigators canvassed the neighborhood in search of surveillance footage and said they planned to obtain search warrants for one or more nearby properties as they work to reconstruct what happened, according to NBC10. Authorities confirmed that the recovered firearm was seized from the young woman taken into custody, and detectives are now trying to match physical evidence with witness statements and any video they can find.
For the moment, investigators are zeroing in on who fired which rounds and whether the victim and others were caught in a back-and-forth before the shot that hit her.
Custody and next steps
Philadelphia police also detained the victim’s son on gun charges as part of the same investigation, according to 6abc. Officials have not released the names of those involved or detailed the specific charges while the probe continues.
