{"id":78947,"date":"2025-07-20T21:11:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T21:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78947\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T21:11:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T21:11:10","slug":"second-suspect-identified-wanted-in-washington-avenue-mass-shooting-metro-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/78947\/","title":{"rendered":"Second suspect identified, wanted in Washington Avenue mass shooting \u2013 Metro Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<img width=\"305\" height=\"366\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GwKliQyWYAMNBkh.jpg\" class=\"crop-center wp-post-image\" alt=\"Washington Avenue mass shooting\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Nino DaSilvio <\/p>\n<p>PROVIDED \/ U.S. MARSHALS SERVICE<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have identified a second suspect wanted in connection with the Fourth of July weekend <a href=\"https:\/\/metrophiladelphia.com\/mass-shooting-south-philly-bar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shooting at a Washington Avenue lounge<\/a> that left eight people injured in South Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-193664\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GwKliQxWEAAvHw3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"148\" height=\"368\"\/>This surveillance image depicts Nino DaSilvio, authorities say.PROVIDED \/ U.S. MARSHALS SERVICE<\/p>\n<p>An arrest warrant has been issued for 22-year-old Nino DaSilvio, police said Friday. He is expected to be charged with aggravated assault and other crimes, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/USMS_Philly\/status\/1946299999437939059\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to the U.S. Marshals Service<\/a>, which is participating in the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The USMS described DaSilvio as being 5 feet 11 inches tall and about 150 pounds. As of Sunday, he had not been taken into custody, a PPD spokesperson told Metro.\n<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about his whereabouts or the shooting is asked to contact the police department\u2019s Shooting Investigation Group at 215-686-8270 or call or text the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillypolice.com\/forms\/submit-a-tip\/#:~:text=To%20submit%20a%20tip%20via,TIPS%20(8477).&amp;text=If%20you%20would%20like%20to,names%20of%20any%20known%20persons.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tip line<\/a>, 215-686-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n<p>Knives were pulled during an argument just before 4 a.m. July 5 outside the 7 Elements nightclub at 11th Street and Washington Avenue, investigators said. As security tried to intervene, shots were fired from the lounge\u2019s balcony, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Five men and three women between the ages of 25 and 43 were struck as multiple individuals opened fire, authorities said at the time. All of the victims survived.\n<\/p>\n<p>Police on July 11 arrested Michael Welton, 43, reportedly one of the establishment\u2019s security guards. He has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated assault and related crimes, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators last week distributed surveillance images of a third person allegedly involved in the shooting. The PPD described him as a Black man with a heavy build, full beard and arm tattoos who was wearing a large gold chain with a charm.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-193665\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Screenshot-2025-07-16-at-8.05.24-PM-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"308\"  \/>This surveillance image shows a suspect in the July 5 Washington Avenue shooting.PROVIDED \/ PHILADELPHIA POLICE<\/p>\n<p>The incident was the first of two mass shootings occurring over a violent July 4 holiday weekend. Two days later, in the early morning hours of July 7, three people were killed and nine others were wounded in <a href=\"https:\/\/metrophiladelphia.com\/victims-video-grays-ferry-mass-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a shootout that disrupted a party in Grays Ferry<\/a>. No arrests have been reported in that case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nino DaSilvio PROVIDED \/ U.S. MARSHALS SERVICE Authorities have identified a second suspect wanted in connection with the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78948,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5132],"tags":[5229,4222,29229,1448,2830,1311,11590,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-78947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-gun-violence","10":"tag-mass-shooting","11":"tag-pa","12":"tag-pennsylvania","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-south-philadelphia","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114887621968517397","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78947","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=78947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}