A 46-year-old man sustained a gunshot wound in his thigh last weekend after an altercation with another man in the Gayborhood, said Philadelphia police.
The incident took place on the 1300 block of Walnut Street at 10:43 p.m. March 24, according to a police-incident report. The victim called police and was taken to Jefferson University Hospital, and was listed in stable condition, police said. The suspect remained at large at presstime.
The victim, age 46, was walking out of a store on the nearby 100 bock of South 13th Street when an unknown man confronted him, police said. The two men got into a verbal dispute about the male obstructing the store’s doorway.
The shooter was described as an African-American male with dreadlocks and wearing a dark jacket with a hood.
Officer Eric McLaurin, a police spokesperson, said Central Detective Division is investigating the incident. “We don’t have any updates,” McClarin said on March 26.