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At 4:47 p.m. Sunday, police, responding to a person-with-a-gun call at 20th and Porter streets, met with two girls who relayed that while they were on the 2400 block of South 20th Street, three unknown black males approached and shot them with pellet guns, Detective Danielle Tolliver of South Detective Division said. Once an unknown female in a vehicle shouted at them, the supposed offenders fled the area on their bicycles.
At 5:21 p.m. the same day, law enforcement agents received a similar call for a matter on the 1900 block of Shunk Street. A woman told them she had been walking northbound on 19th Street from Shunk Street when the same amount of individuals approached and shot her in the neck and shoulder with pellet guns, using bicycles to avoid capture. While surveying the area, police observed three bicycles that matched flash information, Tolliver said, parked outside of Dunkin’ Donuts, 1800 Oregon Ave. Inside the establishment, they noticed three males who fit the flash information descriptions and had the complainants, none of whom sought immediate medical treatment for their minor injuries, transported there. Following the victims’ identification of the males and the bicycles, police, acting upon a search incident to arrest, recovered pellet guns from the detained juveniles and arrested them.
According to Tolliver, officials have charged two 12-year-olds criminally but are unable to charge the 8-year-old arrestee because of his age.
Contact Managing Editor Joseph Myers at jmyers@southphillyreview.com or ext. 124.
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