A 13-year-old girl who was injured in a shooting on Friday evening was one of the teens at the scene of the fatal beating of a 73-year-old man last month, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner said Monday.
The girl was shot in the jaw outside her Germantown home at 6:41 p.m. after two young men with guns fired a single shot, said Capt. John Walker, head of the Philadelphia Police Department’s nonfatal shooting unit. As the girl ran from the shooting, she fell and broke her femur, Walker said.
Investigators have not been able to identify a motive in the shooting, and Krasner declined to speculate on whether the shooting was in any way related to the traffic cone incident. The girl remains in stable condition — but in serious pain — at Einstein Medical Center, Walker said, and because of the nature of her injuries, police have not yet been able to interview her about what happened.