By Associated Press - Sunday, February 19, 2017

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Police say four teenagers were injured by gunfire in west Philadelphia.

Officers were called to the area at about 9:15 p.m. Saturday and found a 16-year-old youth shot in the foot and a 15-year-old youth shot in the thigh.

Nearby they found two other 16-year-old youths, one with a gunshot wound to the chest and another who had been shot in the back.



All four were taken to Penn-Presbyterian Medical Center. Southwest detectives were investigating, and no arrests were immediately announced.

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