By Micheal Chukwuebuka, Reporting
A teenager was killed and four other people were wounded in a shooting Monday afternoon at a bus stop in Philadelphia.
NBC News reported that the shooting occurred about 3:45 p.m. at the SEPTA bus stop near Broad Street and Godfrey Avenue. The 17-year-old boy who died was shot multiple times.
Two 15-year-old boys had graze wounds. A 71-year-old woman was shot in the head, and a 49-year-old woman was grazed in the right forearm, police said.
At a media briefing Monday, Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kelvin Bethel said the victim, who was killed, appears to have been targeted.
His identity has not been released.
According to Bethel, about 20 school-age children were at the stop when two people went up to the bus and started shooting. The women who were shot were aboard the bus.
“The bus is stopped. People are starting to board the bus, and that’s when we have two individuals come up and start to fire,” he said.
He also added that the shooting happened at a busy intersection and that multiple rounds were fired.
“It could have been much worse,” Bethel said.
As of the time of filing this report, police had not announced any arrests.
A SEPTA spokesperson said that such incidents are extremely rare for the transit service and that even one is unacceptable.
“This was a horrific incident that claimed one life and left several others injured, including two women on the Route 6 bus who were just trying to go about their day,” SEPTA spokesperson Andrew Busch said in a statement to NBC Philadelphia.
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