8 high school students were shot at a busy intersection in Northeast Philly, the 4th shooting this week involving a SEPTA bus
“Enough is enough,” said Mayor Cherelle L. Parker, speaking in the pouring rain at the scene of the Burholme shooting. She added that “we will not be held hostage” by the week’s surge of gun violence. Superintendent Tony B. Watlington Sr. was also at the scene.The motive for the shooting was unclear, and it was not known whether the students, seven boys and one girl, were targeted.
Authorities said that four of the students were taken to Jefferson Torresdale Hospital, three were taken to Jefferson Einstein Hospital, and one was taken by private vehicle to Temple University Hospital-Jeanes Campus. As it happened, at a noon news conference, Lawson said SEPTA transit officers would attack gun violence on mass transit with strict enforcement of lesser criminal violations and regular searches of detained suspects for firearms.
Law enforcement officials earlier Wednesday announced a number of measures aimed at curbing the gun violence, including “SEPTA checks,” with Philadelphia police boarding buses to talk to operators and look around, said Frank Vanore, the Philadelphia police deputy commissioner of investigations. Also, SEPTA plans to deploy more police officers on buses, especially in areas identified as trouble spots.
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