Gratz, PA

People are being urged to avoid the area of two locations around Temple University in North Philadelphia due to reports of shots fired, the university said through its emergency alerts system. The first report of shots fired occurred off-campus at the 1700 block of N. Gratz Street just before 11 p.m., the university said on social media. NBC10 was on the scene to find at least three shell casings marked for evidence, as well as a bullet hole in a yellow car’s windshield.

Police are investigating whether two shootings that happened in North Philadelphia are connected after they happened minutes apart on Friday night. According to Philadelphia Police Inspector D.F. Pace, the first shooting happened around 8:16 p.m. on Aug. 14 near the intersection of 21st and Gratz streets in North Philly. When officers got to the scene, they reported finding a young man who had been shot multiple times throughout his body, Pace said. The man was taken to a nearb