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The
shooting came hours after a gunman on a rooftop opened fire on
families waving flags and children riding bikes at a Fourth of
July parade in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, where six
people were killed and over 36 were wounded.
Both officers in Philadelphia were released from hospital after
suffering non-life threatening injuries, Philadelphia Mayor Jim
Kenney said. Police were searching for the shooter.
Video from the incident showed hundreds of people running from
the Benjamin Franklin Parkway after shots were fired.
Kenney said his administration was "pleading with lawmakers" to
stop the "flow of guns into our city."
"Our traditions cannot and will not be ruined by the scourge of
gun violence," he added.
The gunfire broke out late on Monday near the Philadelphia
Museum of Art on the final day of a festival with a large number
of people watching a fireworks show after a concert.
"There is a security incident on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway,"
emergency authorities said, referring to the shooting.
Police instructed people in surrounding buildings to shelter in
place.
"I didn't hear the shots, but the cops were like, ‘Run, run,
run,'" one woman told an NBC affiliate.
One officer sustained a graze wound to the head and the other a
gunshot wound to the right shoulder, according to NBC10.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Kim
Coghill and Raju Gopalakrishnan)
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