Around 1:00PM this afternoon, four shots were fired by a moving vehicle at a UCD streetcleaner. The man was shot in the left shoulder and initial indications are that he will survive the shooting. Walnut street between Farragut and 47th Streets has been closed by the Philadelphia police. They were joined at the scene by Penn Police and other employees of the UCD. Eyewitnesses told me that someone driving past shot at the worker who was in his streetcleaning vehicle at the time. He was taken away in an ambulance with blood coming from a wound in his shoulder. Another UCD employee confirmed to me that it was indeed one of their people who was shot. I did not ask the victim's name. I said that we would all be looking forward to an update on his condition and hoped that he would have a speedy recovery.
Three cameras mounted on the large apartment building immediately across from the shooting may help the police identify the shooter's car.
