{"id":106400,"date":"2025-07-31T02:26:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/106400\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T02:26:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:26:14","slug":"philly-mass-shooting-5-shot-including-2-children-near-west-philly-rec-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/106400\/","title":{"rendered":"Philly mass shooting: 5 shot, including 2 children, near West Philly rec center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/DF5A0E661F706A3ECE598F6637481F0D.jpg\" alt=\"4 shot, including 2 juveniles, near West Philly rec center\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-57dc2675=\"\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>WEST PHILADELPHIA<\/strong> &#8211; Philadelphia police are investigating a shooting near a West Philly rec center that left one teen in critical condition, while two children, a 16-year-old and a rec center employee were also injured.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Philadelphia police were called to the intersection of South 56th and Christian streets Wednesday afternoon, around 4 p.m. on the report of shots fired.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Philadelphia Police Commissioner Kevin Bethel said five people were shot, two of whom were children. Those two kids, ages 10 and 11, sustained graze wounds. A rec center employee also sustained graze wounds during the violent incident, while a 16-year-old was also injured.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Another 16-year-old was shot multiple times and is in extremely critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/9F69603F8805F508AFE97358B65D0EF9.jpg\" alt=\"4 shot at West Philly rec center including 2 minors, 1 employee\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-57dc2675=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Dig deeper:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Commissioner Bethel explained that a fight broke out at the shooting location earlier in the day and was broken up by rec center staff.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Those involved in the fight were said to have returned to the location later in the day and opened fire on people not in the pool, but on 56th Street.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime &amp; Public Safety<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/us\/pa\/philadelphia\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox29.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST PHILADELPHIA &#8211; Philadelphia police are investigating a shooting near a West Philly rec center that left one&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,6082,50,1448,2830,1311,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-106400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-crime-publicsafety","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-united-states-of-america","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114945483778439322","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}