A triple shooting on the 3100 block of F Street in Kensington left a 25-year-old man fighting for his life and two other men injured Tuesday night, with police still searching for whoever opened fire. Investigators responded to the scene just after 8 p.m., and the block was closed to traffic as officers worked the area.
Victims Hospitalized With Range of Injuries
According to NBC10 Philadelphia, the 25-year-old victim was listed in critical condition with gunshot wounds to his chest and groin, while two other men were in stable condition at the hospital. A third victim, a 37-year-old man, was struck in the knee and was also listed in stable condition, per Citizen.
Aerial footage from SkyForce10 showed evidence markers and a shoe left behind in the roadway at the scene, according to the station's report. No arrests have been made, and the investigation remains ongoing, the outlet reported early Wednesday.
Not the First Shooting on This Block
This is not the first time this stretch of F Street has seen gunfire. A separate shooting on the same 3100 block occurred around 12:30 a.m. on a Sunday, according to 6abc, which reported that police recovered at least 15 shell casings at that scene. A few blocks away, on the 3500 block of F Street, a shooting in June left a 23-year-old man dead and another man injured, as the same NBC10 report noted. And in another Kensington triple shooting reported separately, three men were hospitalized — one critical, two stable — after investigators recovered 10 spent shell casings.
A Neighborhood That Still Tops the City's Numbers
The repeated violence on this stretch of Kensington tracks with broader patterns identified by The Trace, which analyzed shooting and gun-homicide data across nearly 150 Philadelphia neighborhoods from 2015 through 2024 and found the city's hardest-hit areas have stayed hardest-hit. Upper Kensington had more shootings than any other Philadelphia neighborhood in 2024 and recorded 951 shooting incidents over that decade-long span, the outlet found, even as citywide totals dropped sharply from 2,269 shootings in 2023 to 1,112 in 2024.
Philadelphia recorded 16,475 shootings citywide between 2015 and 2024, according to The Trace's analysis. Citywide, the trend has continued downward this year: reported shooting victims were down 35% and shooting incidents were down 5.7%, according to Axios, which also reported that the city had recorded 101 homicides as of early August, a 25% decline from the same point in 2025 based on police data.
Even against that backdrop of citywide improvement, Tuesday night's shooting is a reminder that pockets of Kensington continue to see repeated gun violence. As of now, the conditions that led to the shooting remain unclear, and police have not announced any arrests.
