🚨 A bystander was shot in the head outside a West Philadelphia deli Thursday afternoon.

🚨 A bystander was shot in the head outside a West Philadelphia deli Thursday afternoon.

Up front: this story rests on a single report so far — NBC10, relaying what Philadelphia Police said at the scene. No official police statement has been released yet, and we're standing by for confirmed details.

NBC10 reports that around 5:15 p.m. Thursday, in the 4000 block of Lancaster Avenue, a man was shot in the head outside a deli and left in critical condition. Police told NBC10 they believe he was an innocent bystander.

NBC10 reports the suspected gunman — described as about 6 feet tall with dreadlocks, wearing a black hoodie with a red heart and "I Love Paris" on it — fled eastbound with six other men.

(Source: NBC10 Philadelphia, October 29, 2026 — single source; not yet confirmed by an official police statement.)

Photo: Lancaster Avenue at Girard Avenue — Derek Yu, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (2007).

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