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At least 23 people were injured â one fatally â from guns and knives during another violent weekend in Philadelphia.
According to police reports covering Friday night into Sunday night, 15 people had been shot and eight stabbed, including one man at a city jail. The toll was expected to grow.
Officials have been at a loss to explain the surge in gun violence that has the city on track to exceed the all-time high in homicides recorded in 1990 â 500. The city finished last year one shy of that record. As of the end of last week, the total was just over 190, up nearly 40% over last year at this time.
The most recent, at 9:30 p.m. Friday, took place inside a convenience store in the 5600 block of Market Street in West Philadelphia, police said.There, two men, 34 and 29, were each shot once in a foot, a 37-year-old woman was shot once in the left shoulder, and a 17-year-old male was shot once in the chest and once in a leg, according to police.
As of Thursday, there had been eight shootings in which four or more people were wounded by bullets, with a total of 42 victims, The Inquirer reported after analyzing city data.
The number of people killed and injured in shootings of four or more victims has spiked sharply in Philadelphia this year and is helping to push the homicide count to a record high, city crime data analyzed by The Inquirer indicates. As of Thursday, there had been eight shootings in which four or more people were struck by bullets, with a total of 42 victims. At the same time last year, there .