Ramadan shooting update: 3 injured, dozens of shots fired in Philadelphia.

 

Podium the Philadelphia police talking about this shooting at a Ramadan event. 

the police man says

 as I begin to start this conversation. Um, I just want to it's going to sound odd, but I'm going to say you that we're very fortunate today that we did not have more individuals injured and anyone killed. I mean, so I'm extremely proud. Men and women who continue to serve in this department and the actions they took today.

 Um, I just continue to be so proud of them as well as those individuals who are in the park who were grabbing kids and got them out of harm's way. 

It was a collective effort today for those who were attending the event as well as our police officers to be able to minimize the number of incidents that we had.

 What we do know and it will change, and it may change significantly. So we're going to be very broad in our conversation today, but at 2:30 today, there was an after Ramadan celebration here at the park. 

We had about a thousand individuals out there and things were going well. We had a detail assigned to this event, and they were working on the outside. During that time period, they were writing tickets. 

There were cars parking at the gas station behind us, and they were writing tickets. At some point, they heard a large volley of gunfire. 

They say approximately 30 gunshots. What we do know is it appeared to be two factions within the park who were now exchanging gunfire.

 As the officers started to deploy into the park, they observed three males and a female running, and they stopped those individuals. 

We recovered four weapons. At the same time, we have one of our officers who was assigned to the area engaged a 15-year-old male who had a weapon. She fired, and that male received a gunshot to his shoulder and leg. 

The officer secured that weapon and then transferred that child to the hospital. We have another individual who showed up, who's 22 years old. He has a gunshot to his stomach, and we believe that may have happened during the gunfire.

 We also have another juvenile who showed up shortly after within the last half an hour at the hospital