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A photo of Olney Transportation Center Wednesday morning showed few commuters in the falling snow. (Facebook/Jeff Byrd)
The morning after a mass shooting rocked North Broad Street outside the Olney Transportation Center, the usually busy area was dusted with snow and potentially missing some of its regular 15,000 daily passengers.
Neighbors who live nearby say people were afraid to commute through the transit hub, where Broad Street Line meets nine bus routes.
“It [looked] like a ghost town compared to how it is every morning,” said Kermit Bradley, who lives about a mile away from Broad and Olney, and whose friend sent him a photo of the emptier-than-usual station. “The people who usually go there every day found other means of transportation today.”
Boom, boom, boom, everybody trying to scatter to get away, recounted one man. I m ducking. I thought my life was on the line, added Will Barton.
Philadelphia Police Commissioner Danielle Outlaw said the injured victims range in ages from 17 to 70. The eight victims include:
- A 22-year-old man who was shot in the back
- A 21-year-old man who was shot in the right leg
- A 53-year-old man who was shot in the right leg
- A 36-year-old woman who was shot in the right thigh
- A 70-year-old man who was shot in the right thigh
- A 17-year-old girl who was shot in the right arm
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