Shooting Injures 3 as Philadelphia Eid Event Is Plunged Into Chaos
Three people were shot at an Eid al-Fitr event in Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon, the city’s police commissioner, Kevin Bethel, told reporters at a news conference.
The shooting occurred around 2:30 p.m. in the city’s Parkside neighborhood, where residents were celebrating the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan before “two factions” fired at least 30 shots at each other, Bethel said.
The commissioner said an officer shot one of the gunmen, a 15-year-old boy, in the stomach before transporting him to a hospital. Four others were detained in connection to the shooting, he said.