For the third time in as many days, a SEPTA rider was shot and killed either on a bus or at a stop in Philadelphia, police said.
The most recent incident unfolded Tuesday night onboard a Route 79 bus near South Broad Street and Snyder Avenue, Fox 29 reported. While few details have been provided, authorities said an argument preceded the deadly confrontation, which began around 6:40 p.m.
The 37-year-old victim, whose name has not yet been released, suffered at least two gunshot wounds. He was rushed to Jefferson University Hospital-Center City, where he was later pronounced dead, WPVI reported.
Police said the shooter managed to flee the area, after getting off the bus and heading into the Snyder Station along the Broad Street Line. No weapons were recovered at the scene.
The bloody bus violence came a day after Dayemen Taylor, a 17-year-old student at Imhotep Institute Charter High School, was shot in North Philadelphia on Monday around 3:45 p.m. The teen had just finished school for the day and was waiting at a stop in the city’s Ogontz neighborhood when two people, at least one of whom had an automatic weapon, fired at the group.
Dayemen was shot and taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center, where he died from his injuries, police said. Another two teens, both 15, suffered from graze wounds.
Two “innocent bystanders” who were inside the bus at the time of the incident were also wounded, according to authorities, though not critically.
“A juvenile who has now lost his life, we have a 70-year-old woman. Excuse me,” Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said during a press conference Tuesday, pausing to contain his emotion.
“We have a 70-year-old woman with a grocery cart on a bus who was struck in the head with a bullet and survived, most likely, because of the thickness of the glass and movement of the bus,” he continued. “We have another person on this bus, and I’m not going to say who, who is a medical worker, who spends time caring, among others, for victims of shootings. We have other young people shot in this process. This is an absolute outrage.”
Police have said they believe the shooting on Monday was a targeted attack.
On Sunday night, a man was also shot and killed exiting a SEPTA bus in Northeast Philadelphia. Authorities raced to Castor Avenue, near Van Kirk Street, in the Oxford Circle, where they discovered 27-year-old Sawee Kofa on the ground with gunshot wounds to his face and chest. He was pronounced dead minutes later.
No arrests have been made in connection with any of the recent SEPTA shootings.
