Teenager riding bicycle in Philadelphia killed in drive-by shooting: Police

The sufferer’s title has not been launched pending household notification.

Surveillance video obtained by Motion Information exhibits a pickup truck on North 2nd Avenue approaching Allegheny Avenue round 10:50 p.m. Thursday.

The teenager is seen using on a mountain bike to its proper.

You may see muzzle flashes within the automobile and, inside seconds, the teenager collapses, falling off his bike.

Neighbors described speedy gunshots.

“There have been like ten pictures,” recalled Pete Torres of Kensington.

“The pictures woke me up,” stated Jose Soto. “A number of individuals on the road screaming. There was a girl screaming for assist, ‘Any individual name the cops, name the cops!’”

Arriving officers discovered the teenager mendacity between two parked autos.

“Went downstairs- there was a child laying beneath my truck,” Soto stated.

A neighbor, who’s a nurse, carried out CPR earlier than police arrived.

“We consider this may increasingly have been a drive-by capturing. We’re getting data from witnesses that the shooter or shooters might have been inside a pickup truck that was touring south on 2nd avenue,” stated Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small.

Police discovered a parked automobile that had been struck not less than 4 instances on the motive force’s aspect. A bullet additionally went by means of the entrance door of a close-by dwelling, ending up in a front room.

“We did not discover any spent shell casings, however we consider that is as a result of the shell casings should be within the automobile,” Small stated.