Daily News | Shootout erupts between police and gunman in Frankford
A gun battle erupted Wednesday evening between police and a man suspected of shooting at least one person in the city’s Frankford section.
Around 7 p.m., officers responded to the sound of gunshots near the Arrott Transportation Center and found one female shot, police said, and a second female may have suffered a graze wound. A man believed to be the shooting suspect ran into a property on the 4700 block of Leiper Street and began firing shots from a window at officers outside, police said. At least one officer reported that he fired back at the shooter.
A SEPTA police officer was injured and transported to Temple University Hospital. The nature of the injury was not immediately available.The area around the barricade has been closed to civilian traffic.
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