UPDATED: We have now learned that someone is charged with shooting a person they previously had a relationship with inside a Philly bar restroom earlier this week.
A woman was hospitalized after another woman -- who prosecutors said she had a previous relationship with -- shot her inside the restroom of a North Philadelphia bar, police said.
The incident occurred inside Jimmy's Lounge on Rising Sun Avenue and West Loudon Street in the Feltonville neighborhood shortly after 9 p.m. Tuesday, investigators said.Witnesses told police a group of people -- including a 35-year-old woman and a 39-year-old woman later identified by the Philadelphia District Attorney's Office as Felicia Haynes -- got into a fight outside the bar.Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters.
Haynes then entered the bar alone and went into a restroom, the DA's office said Thursday. The 35-year-old woman and several others then followed her inside and into the bathroom where another fight broke out. Customers and employees inside the bar then heard at least one gunshot, police said. The 35-year-old woman, who investigators said was suffering from gunshot wounds to the arm and hip, and Haynes then exited the restroom and left, according to investigators.
The 35-year-old woman was taken to the hospital where she was listed in critical condition. She underwent surgery and was expected to survive, Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said.
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