Police probe shootings

Aubrey Whelan has an article in The Philadelphia Inquirer about yet another shooting in Philadelphia:

When the boys on Gratz Street heard the gunshots Sunday afternoon, they abandoned their game of basketball and started to run.
Up and down the street, neighbors heard the shots, too; about ten, in rapid succession, they say. Minutes later, Teyeesha Callia - just three blocks away at a cousin's house - picked up her phone. Her daughter was on the other end. "Mom," she said, "Kashie got shot."
By the time Callia made it back to the 1500 block of Gratz, her son, eleven-year-old Kashie Crawford, was already in the back of a police car racing to Temple University Hospital.
Police say he and a group of friends were playing basketball when an unknown man walked down Gratz. That's when one or more shooters opened fire from a blue Mercury Grand Marquis, police said. The man fired back, police say, and in the midst of the gunfight, Kashie Crawford was hit in the back.
A neighbor took the boy into a house on the block until police arrived, then rode with him to the hospital. Callia followed shortly after.
"I wanted to just pass out," Callia said. Her son had been upgraded from critical to stable condition at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children, but was still sedated in the intensive care unit. "We're taking it day by day," she said.
An investigation was ongoing, and police said there were several video cameras in the area and were set to review footage.
Another eleven-year-old, Jamara Stevens, was killed in West Philadelphia after, police said, her two-year-old brother accidentally fired a .357-caliber revolver in an upstairs bedroom of her house. Police found Stevens' mother cradling the girl in their house on the 3800 block of Wallace Street. Stevens was rushed in a squad car to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where she was pronounced dead. The gun, police said, had been left on top of the refrigerator by a friend of the girl's mother. At some point, the gun was taken from the refrigerator and left unsecured in the master bedroom, police said.
Stevens' mother and her children were all in the bedroom together when the mother left to use the bathroom, police said. That's when the children found the revolver, loaded and cocked, police said, and began to play with it.
Stevens' brother was pointing the gun in her direction when it discharged, police said.
Homicide detectives were still investigating the incident, and no arrests have been made, police said.

Rico says that, yes, there are too many gubs in the hands of idiots...