Police said the gunman fired multiple shots from a passing vehicle into a group of people gathered on the 1900 block of South Salford Street in Kingessing.
Police tape hangs on a pole as pedestrians walk along the area of 60th and Kingsessing Avenue on Friday. One person was killed and eight others injured in a late night shooting on July 4 in Southwest Philadelphia, police said.A July Fourth gathering in Southwest Philadelphia descended into chaos on Thursday night when a gunman opened fire into a crowd, killing one man and wounding eight others, including four teens, police said.
Police have not released the name of the man who was killed, but law enforcement sources familiar with the investigation identified him as Maurice Quain. However, friends and family who held two vigils for him on Friday in North and Southwest Philadelphia identified him as Maurice White. A woman officials said was a relative of the man who was killed wiped away tears as the mayor spoke. About 50 people gathered outside Bartram High School in Southwest Philadelphia to release balloons in his memory. White’s niece Jamira White-Tucker remembered him as a fun-loving and kind man who loved to dance.
“We have kids as far away as the Northeast, all the way up to close to Cheltenham Avenue, who are coming across the city,” he said. “They come into these areas, unknowing of what’s going on, surging together.” Green said the shots appeared to come from a passing vehicle, and that gunfire was directed at a crowd of young people running toward the First Genesis Baptist Church.
The Fourth of July shooting unnerved a neighborhood still shaken by a mass shooting that happened just blocks away on the eve of Independence Day last year, amid early celebration.
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