Girl, two, is shot dead inside her Philadelphia home - hours after an 11-month-old boy was left clinging to life in another shooting in the city
- Child's mother, 24, was hit with bullets but is in stable condition in hospital
- Suspect fired seven rifle shots through the window and the door of the home
- 11-month-old survived four stray bullets when suspect shot at the car he was in
A two-year-old toddler was killed inside her Philadelphia home on Sunday just hours after an 11-month old boy survived being shot with four bullets.
The little girl - who has not been named - was shot once in the back of the head in the living room of her home in Kensington. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The suspect opened fire outside the house at 3.30pm, blasting seven shots through the door and windows, in what seemed like a targeted attack, according to reports.
Police said that the gunman fired at least seven shots through the door and window of a home on the 3300 block of North Water Street in Philadelphia (pictured) at 3.31pm Sunday
'No child should be murdered in their living room. It’s just terrible,' Philadelphia’s acting police commissioner, Christine Coulter, told the Inquirer.
'The wanton gun violence, the disregard for people’s lives or safety. To shoot into an occupied house is something I can’t comprehend.'
The gunman also struck the child's 24-year-old mother with stray bullets in the head and the back. She was in a critical but stable condition on Sunday evening.
Philadelphia’s acting police commissioner, Christine Coulter (pictured), said that she couldn't understand the gunman's 'disregard for people's lives or safety'
Stock image of Philadelphia police. The news of the toddler's death comes just hours after an 11-month old baby boy was shot four times when a gunman opened fire on the car he was travelling, riddling it with bullets. Despite some of them hitting him in the head and chest, he is now in a stable condition in hospital
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A contractor, who was working in the house, was hit in the stomach and is in critical condition.
'It’s heartbreaking,' Coulter told the paper.
'Any crime, anybody shot is a horrible thing, but when people indiscriminately shoot and kill babies — it’s unexplainable. I can’t imagine.'
The news of the toddler's death comes just hours after an 11-month old baby boy was shot four times, including in the head and chest, when a gunman shot at the car he was sitting in.
He was rushed to hospital and listed as critical but in a stable condition on Sunday.
The girl was the 278th person to be killed in Philadelphia this year.
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