A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed in Philadelphia's Port Richmond neighbourhood on Halloween night, Saturday, October 31, 2026, and police are searching for whoever carried out the shooting, NBC10 Philadelphia reported, citing the Philadelphia Police Department. The teenager is not being named in this report: he was a minor, and police have released only his age and the neighbourhood where he was shot.
Source: NBC10 Philadelphia, Oct. 31, 2026
The shooting happened at around 6:50 p.m. on the 3600 block of Richmond Street in Port Richmond, as trick-or-treating was under way across the city. Officers found the 15-year-old with multiple gunshot wounds. He was taken to hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 7:06 p.m. — sixteen minutes after the shooting was reported.
No arrests, no weapon recovered, and a police appeal
No arrests have been made and no weapon was recovered at the scene, police said, and the investigation is ongoing. Police have not released a suspect description or a motive. Anyone with information is urged to contact the Philadelphia Police Department at 215-686-TIPS (8477), or to submit a tip anonymously online.
The Port Richmond killing was not an isolated incident in an otherwise quiet evening. A police-based summary of Saturday night's violence reported by Particle News said three shootings happened within roughly 26 minutes across West Philadelphia, Port Richmond and Fairhill, producing two fatalities and one additional injured person, with no weapons recovered at the three scenes and no arrests, suspect descriptions or motives released.
Source: Particle News summary of Philadelphia police reports, Oct. 31, 2026
The night had already turned violent before Halloween evening
The Halloween-night shooting followed an overnight run of shootings and stabbings across Philadelphia that left four people injured, two of them critically, according to preliminary information provided by the Philadelphia Police Department and reported by FOX Philadelphia.
Source: FOX Philadelphia via The Bull Post, Oct. 31, 2026 — source: Philadelphia Police Department
The violence began late on Friday night in West Philadelphia. At around 11:35 p.m., officers responding to a report of a person with a gun on the 500 block of South Salford Street, in the Cobbs Creek area, found a 22-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds to the face. Police took him to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center in critical condition. Investigators found a 2026 black Cadillac Escalade at the scene with multiple bullet holes, and recovered two firearms there.
At around 3:15 a.m. on Saturday, officers were called to the 700 block of North 40th Street for a stabbing; medics took an adult man to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was listed in stable condition. Around 5:24 a.m., officers responded to Episcopal Hospital after a 20-year-old man arrived with a gunshot graze wound to his left arm; he told police the shooting happened on the 4000 block of Lancaster Avenue, was transferred to Temple University Hospital, and was expected to be released — officers searched Lancaster Avenue but did not locate a crime scene.
A second stabbing followed at approximately 9:47 a.m. on Saturday in North Philadelphia, where officers responding to the 2500 block of North 17th Street found a 43-year-old man with a stab wound to the stomach. Police took him to Temple University Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition.
Across the overnight incidents and the Port Richmond killing, police have released no victim names, no suspect descriptions and no motives, and reported no arrests in connection with any of the cases as of Saturday night. The tip line for every one of these investigations is the same: call or text the Philadelphia Police Department at 215-686-TIPS (8477).
A Halloween night in Port Richmond
Port Richmond is a largely residential neighbourhood in Northeast Philadelphia along the Delaware River, a community of row homes where Richmond Street is one of the main local corridors. The shooting happened in the early evening, at the hour when Halloween foot traffic — children in costume, parents, and neighbours on porches — is at its heaviest, which is why a killing on a residential block at 6:50 p.m. carries a particular weight for the families who live there. Police have not said whether the teenager was targeted, whether he was alone, or whether anyone else was present when the shots were fired.
What happens next
The case now rests with Philadelphia homicide investigators: they will work the Richmond Street scene for camera footage and witnesses, and the department's public appeal is the tip line, 215-686-TIPS (8477), with anonymous online tips also accepted. The next facts readers should expect are whether police release a suspect description or surveillance images, whether the second fatality in Saturday evening's 26-minute cluster is formally detailed by police, and whether any arrest follows. Until then, the verified record is a short and stark one: a 15-year-old shot multiple times on a residential street on Halloween night, pronounced dead at 7:06 p.m., and no one in custody.