Six people shot at summer league game

Six people shot at summer league game

Published Aug. 22, 2011 1:00 a.m. ET

Six people were wounded, one critically, when shots were fired Monday night during a basketball game at a crowded Philadelphia recreation center, WCAU-TV reported.

Police said a lone shooter approached one of the courts at the Kingsessing Recreation Center about 8:45 p.m. local time and fired 11 shots towards center court during a summer league playoff game. About 500 people were reportedly in attendance at the event.

Five men and one woman were shot, with the most seriously injured person, an unidentified man, shot once in the stomach.

The other victims — four males, aged 18, 19, 21 and 23, and a 19-year-old female — were listed as being stable, with injuries to their lower extremities, at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

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Two police officers were among the spectators and they chased the suspect on foot, but no arrest was made, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.

The police were able to recover a revolver that they said had been fired recently.

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