Philadelphia Shooting Leaves Seven Dead, Three Injured
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Police in Philadelphia are trying to find out who broke into a house in West Philadelphia last night and shot seven people to death. Three more people were wounded in that attack. And it is the second major multiple shooting incident in the United States this week alone. Let's get the details now from Beth McDonough of CNN affiliate KYW-TV in Philadelphia. Beth, what do you know?</s>BETH MCDONOUGH, KYW-TV, PHILADELPHIA: Well, Carol, what happened here resulted in the highest number of deaths from a single shooting in Philadelphia. And when neighbors wake up here in this West Philadelphia neighborhood this morning, they will see police cars in their street again. And that's because after this mass slaughter, a total of 10 people shot, seven people dead this morning, homicide investigators have remained on the scene all night long collecting evidence -- evidence in a crime in which the victims are not just those involved in the shooting.</s>MCDONOUGH (voice-over): One by one, the survivors are rolled on stretchers into the street on a bitterly cold night. Three people out of 10 lived through what police call the worst shooting massacre in West Philadelphia history.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was like baga baga baga baga baga (ph) was the only thing you heard.</s>MCDONOUGH: Neighbors heard the shots when four masked men stormed into the rundown row home, a known drug house. The shooters unleashed a barrage of gunfire at 8:00 last night. Bullets found six men in a dining room. A seventh person, a woman, passed away later at the hospital. Three others remain in critical condition. Troy Kelly is a lifelong resident of Lex Street (ph). He's not surprised at all by the violence.</s>TROY KELLY, NEIGHBOR: Ain't never seen it like this, though, all these people dead on one block.</s>MCDONOUGH: Homicide investigators scoured the row home and the entire neighborhood for evidence and weapons. They came up short, but did discover crack cocaine inside the house. Ashley Richardson (ph) says she's not afraid of anything anymore after living in an area where drug activity and gunfire are commonplace.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Knowing that you can't be safe no where you go.</s>MCDONOUGH: Several worried neighbors gathered around the roped- off crime scene crying and yelling, trying to find out if their family members might have been in the house, might be a victim, too.</s>MCDONOUGH: It has been 11 hours and counting now, and those four gunmen are still on the loose. And earlier this morning, Philadelphia Police Commissioner John Timoney told his officers to spare no expense in tracking down the four men responsible for Philadelphia's worst massacre in recent memory. Reporting live in West Philadelphia, Beth McDonough, KYW 3, Eyewitness News.