Sean Toomey, 15, was shot around 9:10 p.m. Thursday in Northeast Philadelphia, police said. He died at a local hospital the following day.
Toomey, a former Mercy Career & Technical High School student, was getting a case of water from the car when gunfire erupted.
He was shot once in the head and once in the side, CBS3 reported.
“I heard the two pops and I thought it was firecrackers,” Sean’s father, John, said, ABC6 reported. “But it only takes a second to grab some water and get in the house and he wasn’t coming back in. So, I got curious, I put my sweatshirt on, and I went outside, and I saw him lying on my neighbor’s lawn.”
Police said the shooting may be connected to at least two attempted robberies in the area.
Homicide Capt. Jason Smith said Monday that a group of three men first attempted to rob a woman at an ATM machine around 9 p.m., the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. The same men then attempted to carjack a woman pulling into an apartment building parking lot, Smith said. The group fled after noticing her son in the backseat, according to the Inquirer.
The woman told police that shortly afterwards she heard a series of gunshots.
No arrests have been made.
Toomey’s father John told CBS3 that his son was a quiet kid who liked computers, football and basketball.
“He liked his computer,” John said. “He liked watching the Eagles. He knew a lot about sports. He was a quiet, nice kid.”
“I’m probably going to move out of here,” he said. “You know, I was born and raised in this neighborhood. Now, kids are getting shot on the streets.”
A GoFundMe page has been set up to help the family pay for funeral and memorial expenses.
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Gee maybe Philly should defund the police some more and all this shooting will stop!? Nahhhh, they are violent there!!!
Sad, really SAD, what a senseless Murder yet again, but we need to DEFUND the Police…!!!??? RIP Sean…it may take a while but I am sure the Police will find this Brute who have done this to you for NO reason whatsoever…
the blood is on the democrats hands, for allowing these criminals to run free. democrats don’t care all they care about is their pocket books and how much money they can suck out of you. So sad about this young innocent kid getting killed, God bless him
Aah, the city of “Brotherly Love” seems to have gone sour! Why of course this is another (D) run SH!T-HOLE so you ought to expect such evil and violence from it’s bitches, ho’s and gangstas; The NWO-ists love this activity and would like for every city and state in “TRANSFORMED & TRANSGENDERED AMERIKA” to become like this one! You leftist “WOKE-ISTS” just keep voting (D) as in Demo(n)cRAT and see where that gets you fools!
May God be with this young man and his family for having been dealt such a sick tragedy that shouldn’t of ever happened! As usual, the demonic, authortarian Left will blame the gun rather than who pulled the trigger! WTFU, fools!
I will bet that the person who shot this Kid has no Morals, has no permit for a gun, has no license for a gun, the gun is stolen or a black market item. The laws we have on guns just need to be enforced . Stop defunding police.
Looks like the malignant cancer that is known as North Philly, has spread out to Northeast Philly.
Although I don’t know the description of the hood rats who did this, rest assured they was black.
Another homicide the mainstream media will ignore.
If any of those 3 FBI television shows portray this tragic and senseless crime, the victim will be black and the shooter(s) will be white.