Philadelphia Block Party Turns Tragic with Mass Shooting *Just before 1 a.m. on July 7, 2025, a mass shooting rocked the Grays Ferry neighborhood in Philadelphia. The violence erupted on the 1500 block of South Etting Street during a large block party and memorial gathering.

The shooting was one of several episodes of gun and knife violence in the city over the Fourth of July weekend.

Three people were killed and 10 others wounded in a mass shooting in Philadelphia early Monday — less than two days after eight others were injured in another similar attack in the City of Brotherly Love.