Four people were killed and four others were injured in a shooting on Monday night in Philadelphia, and a suspect was taken into custody, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, citing local police.
A spokesperson for the Philadelphia police department confirmed to Reuters by email there were “multiple gunshot victims” but said no further details were immediately available.
Just before 8.40pm, police officers said they had apprehended a male suspect wearing a ballistic vest and recovered a rifle and handgun in a nearby alleyway, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Both the Inquirer and the Philadelphia television station WPVI, an ABC News affiliate, reported two of the people shot were juveniles, but it was not clear whether they were among the dead.
Details of the gun violence the night before Independence Day were sketchy, but the shooting was reported to have erupted in the Kingsessing section of south-west Philadelphia.
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The shooting came a day after two people were shot dead and 28 others injured, about half of them children, in a hail of gunfire at an outdoor neighborhood block party in Baltimore, Maryland.
According to data collected from the Gun Violence Archive, there have been 26 mass killings in the US so far this year. The archive defines a mass killing as involving at least four people killed or injured by firearms, excluding the shooter.