PHILADELPHIA — For a second night in a row, Philadelphia police officers came under fire, although this time no one was injured.
Officers patrolling a central city district packed with restaurants, shops, and clubs shortly before midnight Saturday said they detected a strong odor of marijuana from a passing group. When they called out to the group, a man fled.
Officers pursued him to a nearby street, where he opened fire, discharging at least three shots, authorities say. The officers didn’t return fire.
The 19-year-old suspect later was found hiding behind a building and was taken into custody. He was taken to a hospital ‘‘for treatment for a severe sprain to his right ankle that was the result of jumping over fences of the rear yards of homes,’’ police said.
The shooting came almost exactly 24 hours after a police sergeant was shot and wounded in her car in west Philadelphia and a University of Pennsylvania police officer and four other people were shot and wounded before the gunman was killed. A 25-year-old woman among those shot later died.