A 39-year-old man was shot in the arm early Monday morning as he walked to a bus stop in Kensington, leaving police with a wounded victim but no confirmed crime scene. Officers found him on the 2000 block of East Cambria Street, but he told them the shooting actually happened somewhere else entirely.
The gunfire happened around 5:30 a.m., according to 6abc Philadelphia. Police were called to the 2000 block of East Cambria Street, where they found the man wounded in the arm, the station reports. Officers took him to the hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
What makes this case unusual is the disconnect between where the man was found and where he says he was actually shot. He told police the shooting happened at a different location, and investigators are now working to locate that scene, per the same account. No details on a suspect, a motive, or an arrest have been released.
A Troubled Stretch for the Neighborhood
Monday's shooting adds to a rough recent stretch of gun violence in Kensington. Nine days earlier, a 32-year-old man was shot in the right hip on the 200 block of East Cambria Street — the same corridor where Monday's victim turned up — around 7:15 p.m. Saturday, according to CBS News Philadelphia. He was also reported in stable condition at a local hospital.
That same weekend, a 17-year-old boy was shot in the chest on the 2900 block of Emerald Street in Kensington around 3:30 a.m. Sunday and was taken to a hospital in stable condition, the outlet reported. Those two incidents were part of a wider wave of violence across the city that weekend: four separate shootings left three people dead, including a teenager, and seven others injured, police said, as reported by CBS News Philadelphia.
For now, Monday's shooting remains an open question for investigators. The man is recovering in stable condition, but where exactly he was shot is still unknown.
