A BASKETBALL GAME at Kingsessing Recreation Center turned bloody last night when six people were shot at halftime, police said.
Lt. John Walker said five men and a woman suffered gunshot wounds.
Walker said a man at the game opened fire, apparently aiming for someone who entered the fenced area from 51st Street. Police recovered 11 shell casings at the scene.
Six spectators were shot and wounded when a gunman opened fire at half-time of an adult basketball league game in Philadelphia on Monday, and one person was in critical condition, police said.
Detectives said the five men and one woman wounded in the shooting in southwest Philadelphia were rushed to the nearby Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Police say gunfire erupted at a southwest Philadelphia basketball court during halftime of an adult league game with hundreds of spectators, injuring six people, one critically.