PHILADELPHIA, Penn. - A 12-year-old boy and a woman in a wheelchair were injured by fireworks on Tuesday and Wednesday.
The boy took a cone out to the G and Allegheny streets in Kensington at 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, and it exploded. Philadelphia police officers say they stopped him, and brought him to the hospital after realizing that his left hand was severely injured.“We believe the item that caused the significant injuries to the child was a consumer firework,” said Philadelphia Police Department Staff Inspector Sekou Kinebrew.
Around 1:15 a.m. on Wednesday, police received a phone call claiming that a firework was thrown at a woman at 24th Street and Lehigh Avenue.“This guy started yelling there’s a lady over here in a wheelchair!