A 13-year-old girl was shot in the chest and killed inside a home in North Philadelphia on Wednesday, Sept. 18.
A young teenager is dead after being shot inside a home in North Philadelphia on Wednesday evening, according to a spokesperson with the Philadelphia Police Department.
Officers were called to a house on the 2800 block of North Bailey Street just after 7:30 p.m. on Sept. 18, police said. They were told a shooting incident happened in the second-floor hallway.
Police found a 13-year-old girl who had suffered a single gunshot wound to the right side of her chest, police explained.
She was taken to a nearby hospital where she was pronounced dead just after 8 p.m., according to officials.
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No weapons have been recovered and no one has been arrested yet in connection to this incident, police said.
The scene remains secured as investigators work to figure out what happened.
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