13-year-old suffers 5 gunshot wounds after double shooting in Tioga-Nicetown

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Wednesday, October 21, 2015
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Philadelphia police are investigating a double shooting that left two people injured in the city's Tioga-Nicetown section.

TIOGA-NICETOWN (WPVI) -- Philadelphia police are investigating a double shooting that left a man and a teenage boy injured in the city's Tioga-Nicetown section.

The shooting happened around 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the 3500 block of North 18th Street.

Police said a 20-year-old man was shot once in the buttocks and a 13-year-old boy was shot five times - twice in the left thigh, twice in the left, lower leg and once in the lower back.

Both victims were rushed to Temple University Hospital in stable condition.

So far, police have not established a motive and no arrests have been made.

No weapon was recovered at the scene, police said.