19-Year-Old Yaniyah Foster Dies After Shot In Head In North Philly Quadruple Shooting: Police

Matt Petrillo reports.

IF THE VICTIM WAS A MALE ORFEMALE.SO FAR NO ARRESTS HAVE BEENMADE.TWO PEOPLE ARE IN CUSSTODD ANY CONNECTION TO THEQUADRUPLE SHOOT NOTHING NORTHPHILADELPHIA YESTERDAYAFTERNOON THAT LEFT A YOUNGWOMAN DEAD FEET FROM HER HOME."EYEWITNESS NEWS" REPORTERMATT PETRILLO IS LIVE AT THESCENE.WHAT ELSE DID POLICE REVEAL TOI DAY.REPORTER: POLICE TOLD THAWSTWO GUNS WERE RECOVERED FROMTHAT SHOOTING YESTERDAYAFTERNOON HERE IN NORTHPHILADELPHIA, WHERE THEY WERESTOLEN.TODAY WE ALSO LEARN MORE ABOUTTHE VICTIM, 19 YEAR-OLD YENIY.AH FOSTER.FOSTER AND FRIEND WERE SETTINGOUTSIDE OF STEPS AROUND 3:30WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, WHENMULTIPLE PEOPLE WITH GUNS, RANUP TO THEM AND THEN STARTED TOFIRE.FOSTER'S FAMILY IS HEARTBROKEN.SHE RECENTLY GRADUATED FROMBEN FRANKLIN HIGH SCHOOL ANDHAD BIG DREAMS TO START ACAREER DOING HAIR AND MAKE UP.POLICE ALSO SAY THAT A 25YEAR-OLD MAN WHO WAS SHOT INTHE HEAD IS STILL LISTED INCRITICAL CONDITION, AND TWOOTHER MEN, WHO WERE ALSO SHOT,ARE EXPECTED TO SURVIVE.THE GUNFIRE, ALSO ERUPTED BYSTATE MALIKI CATHOLIC SCHOOLAS STUDENTS WERE DISMISSING.STATE REPRESENTATIVE MALCOLMKENYATTA SAY LAW MAKERS INHARRISBURG COULD HELP PREVENTGUN VIOLENCE BUT HE FELT MANYDO LIT TOLL NOTHING BIT.THIS IS MY DISTRICT.I GREW UP ACROSS THE STREET.REPORTER: THIS ISN'T THEFIRST TIME A SHOOTINGHAPPENED, 3:30 IN THEAFTERNOON, RIGHT BY THISSCHOOL, JUST THREE YEARS AGOTHERE WAS ANOTHER QUADRUPLESHOOTING, THREE PEOPLE WEREKILLED IN THAT, AND YET WHENWE HEAR ABOUT THIS CONSTANTVIOLENCE.I AM, I AM SICK OF IT.I'M HE SICK OF IT.I'M SICK OF FOLLOW HOOKS IWORK WITH IN HARRISBURG WHOACT LIKE THERE IS NOTHING THATWE CAN DO.THERE IS A BUNCH OF THINGSTHAT WE CAN DO TO COMBAT THIS.AND, YOU KNOW, IT IS LIKEBEING MET WITH DEAF EARS UPTHERE HAVING SOME TYPE OFSYSTEM IN PLACE WHERE FOLKS TOHAVE REPORT WHEN THEY LOSE THEGUN, AND THEN ARE ACCOUNTABLEIF THAT GUN WINDS UP BEING APART OF THE CRIME, WOULD GO AWRONG WAY.REPORTER: FORTUNATELY NOSTUDENTS WERE INJURED, INYESTERDAY'S AFTERNOONSHOOTING, AGAIN, TWO PEOPLEARE NEW BEING QUESTIONABLE, BYPHILADELPHIA POLICE.UKEE.MATT, YOU TALK ABOUT HOWGUN VIOLENCE IS NOT NEW TOTHAT NEIGHBORHOOD IN NORTHPHILADELPHIA DOES CITY COUNCILHAVE ANYTHING AT ALL TO SAY ATALL ABOUT THE PROBLEM.REPORTER: WELL, UKEE WEHAVE TALK TO CITY COUNCILPRESIDENT DARRYL CLARK, THISIS HIS DISTRICT, WHERE THATSHOOTING HAPPEN, IN NORTHPHILADELPHIA, AND HE TELLS USTHAT THERE ARE SOME CHANGES HEWANTS TO MAKE AND THEY COULDDO IT RIGHT AWAY.WE HAVE THAT COMING UP, ON"EYEWITNESS NEWS" AT 5:00.