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by Robert Moran Published Oct. 14, 2025, 8:10 p.m. ET

A 16-year-old girl died after getting shot — possibly by accident — Tuesday evening in North Philadelphia , police said.

Shortly before 5:30 p.m., police responded to a reported shooting on the 2400 block of North Colorado Street and found the girl on the first floor with a gunshot wound to her abdomen, Chief Inspector Scott Small said.

Police rushed the girl to Temple University Hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 6:46 p.m.

The shooting apparently occurred in a second-floor rear bedroom, where police found a spent shell casing, a loaded ammunition magazine, and a small amount of blood, Small said. Police also found two semiautomatic handguns in the house.

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