Philadelphia Shootings Trend Report – Week of August 3, 2026
Description
Topic: Community Violence Intervention, City Gun violence
Publication Type: Weekly Report
Year: 2026
Location: Philadelphia
Philadelphia Shootings Trend Report: All Areas, August 3, 2026 – August 9, 2026
For the week of August 3rd – August 9th, across the City of Philadelphia, there were: 12 documented shooting incidents, 14 documented shooting victims, and 7 documented shooting fatalities. This is the same number of incidents from the previous week; there was a 1-victim and 3-fatality increase.
A review of news stories reveals a discrepancy of 2 additional shooting victims reported in the news and not included in the public dataset; 1 nonfatal shooting in Cobbs Creek that was entirely absent, and a second victim in a shooting incident in Nicetown-Tioga that appears as a single-victim shooting in public data.
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