SOUTH PHILADELPHIA - A grandmother is speaking out after her grandson was shot while playing basketball with a friend.
She's pleading for the person who shot her grandson to turn themselves in.“They don't have guns. They had basketballs and bikes,” Gwendolyn Lighty said.Lighty was all fired up Wednesday afternoon after her 18-year-old grandson was shot along with his 14 year old friend at a basketball court right behind her house at 13th Street and Carpenter Tuesday evening.Her grandson and his friend had just left her home to play basketball on the very court she lobbied to get placed in the neighborhood that’s when a gunman got out of a car and opened fire.“We obtained some video and we're currently looking for a 2019 Nissan Versa.