A man was shot multiple times around 8:15 a.m. Thursday on the 5300 block of Delancey Street in Philadelphia's Cobbs Creek neighborhood, and police rushed him to the hospital as investigators combed the scene for a gunman. No arrests had been made as of the latest report, and the investigation remained ongoing.
According to 6abc, officers on scene were focused on a grey sedan with apparent bullet holes in its windshield, though the station reported there was no word on the victim's condition at the time of publication.
Police Still Searching For Answers
The station's report offered no details on a suspect or a motive, and it's not clear whether the damaged grey sedan is connected to the shooting itself. So far, the only confirmed details are the time, the location, and the fact that the man was struck multiple times before being taken to the hospital.
A man was shot three times on the 5300 block of Delancey Street.
A Neighborhood With a Hard-Hit History
The new shooting also lands in a part of West Philadelphia that has logged some of the city's highest gun violence totals in recent years. An analysis by The Trace found Cobbs Creek recorded 605 shootings from 2015 through 2024, the second-highest total of any Philadelphia neighborhood in that span. Even so, the outlet reported the neighborhood's yearly count fell from 78 shootings in 2020 to 47 by 2024, tracking a broader citywide decline that saw shootings drop from 2,269 in 2023 to 1,112 in 2024.
That downward trend hasn't spared Cobbs Creek from repeated violence this year. The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that on March 30, 2026, two men were killed and three others were injured in a quintuple shooting after a masked gunman in a white vehicle fired into a crowd on the 300 block of South 60th Street near Delancey Street around 8:40 p.m. Police identified the two men killed as Naasir Boyd and Paul Cobb, both 24, and said at the time that no arrests had been made and no motive had been established. The Inquirer also noted that at least two other shootings had erupted on that same block of South 60th Street in the preceding year.
In a separate incident, 6abc reported a deadly double shooting in Cobbs Creek that left a man dead and a woman injured just after 1:30 a.m. near 60th and Pine streets.
What Comes Next
For now, Thursday's shooting remains an open case. Police have not announced an arrest, identified a suspect, or confirmed what role, if any, the bullet-pocked grey sedan played in the incident. Anyone with information is encouraged to follow updates as investigators continue working the scene on Delancey Street.
