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15-year-old boy shot in Tacony

A 15-year-old boy was hospitalized following a shooting early Monday morning in Tacony, authorities said.

The teenager was struck in his lower right leg just after 1:15 a.m. on the 6500 block of Marsden Street, according to police. Medics took him to St Christopher’s Hospital for Children, where he was being treated for nonlife-threatening injuries.

No one was arrested in the immediate aftermath of the shooting.

Jack Tomczuk

Jack Tomczuk is a Philadelphia native who started as a news reporter for Metro in March 2020 (just a couple days before COVID hit). Previously, he wrote for the Northeast Times, The Sun newspapers in Burlington and Camden counties and the Press of Atlantic City.

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