City leaders rebuke Philadelphia mass shooting that killed 3, injured 6: ‘This was a gun battle’ [Video]

PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker condemned a weekend mass shooting that erupted during an argument at a street gathering and claimed the lives of three people.

“It’s never okay to put an entire neighborhood at risk like this,” said Parker, who held a press conference from where the shooting unfolded on Sunday morning.

“It is not acceptable for people to think that it is somehow OK to come into a neighborhood block party and pull out a gun and start shooting each other,” Parker said.

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Investigators believe about 100 people gathered on the 1200 block of North Alden Street around 2 a.m. Sunday when a fight lead to an exchange of gunfire.

Three men, ages 23, 29 and 33, were fatally shot, according to police. Five men and one woman, ranging in age from 26 to 30, were also struck during the shooting.

By Monday morning, Police Commissioner …