Boy, 16, allegedly stabbed friend because he wasn't invited to sleepover, faces charges

The other teen was seriously injured, but is expected to survive.

in Philadelphia. A suspect opened fire"indiscriminately" at a crowd in the southwest of the Pennsylvania city, hitting two adults and four teenagers, according to police.

One adult, 24-year-old Isiaka Meite, died from a gunshot wound to his back. The other adult sustained a gunshot wound to the arm and survived. Three of the teens, all aged between 16, were shot in the legs. A fifteen-year-old boy was shot in the foot. Philadelphia police commissioner Richard Ross said police officers were"ramping up patrols across the city" in the wake of a particularly violent weekend. He added police officers needed help when it came to"deeply disturbing" attacks like Sunday's shooting.

He told reporters:"If you only continue to ask us, we're never going to solve this issue. I mean, what you've got to get at is the hearts and minds of people who want to pull out a gun and fire at a group of sixty people. Incidents...like these ones are ones where we're going to need help."suggest that violent crime was down 4.3 percent in the first six months of 2018, compared to the first half of 2017. In the northeast, that percent change was slightly higher at 4.

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