16-year-old boy found fatally shot inside busy Chipotle bathroom near Pennsylvania college

PHILADELPHIA -- A teen was recovered changeable to decease wrong the bath of a Chipotle edifice adjacent the field of Temple University successful Philadelphia.

Philadelphia police said Tuesday greeting the unfortunate is 16-year-old Khyon Smith-Tate of Philadelphia.

Police are besides looking for 3 imaginable suspects, each believed to beryllium boys betwixt 16 and 17 years old.

No arrests person been made.

The find was made astir 5:15 p.m. Monday astatine a Chipotle successful North Philadelphia.

Police said the teen, who was changeable successful the chest, was recovered by a edifice employee.

"We're getting accusation that the 16-year-old unfortunate was wrong with astatine slightest 1 different juvenile male. They asked for keys to the restroom, and that's erstwhile they some went in," Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said.

The unfortunate was pronounced dormant wrong the bathroom, according to police.

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"Not lone did we find the unfortunate successful the bathroom, we recovered 1 spent ammunition casing. So, astatine slightest 1 changeable was fired from a semi-automatic weapon," Small said.

It was the archetypal time backmost from wintertime interruption astatine Temple University. Police accidental the Chipotle was precise crowded astatine the clip of the shooting.

"A batch of students devour here. A batch of radical stitchery astatine Chipotle," Temple elder Chikondi Rose said.

"The nonaccomplishment of beingness to weapon unit is simply a profound tragedy, and determination are nary words that tin marque consciousness of it. Our thoughts are with the victim's household and loved ones," Temple University said successful a statement. "This is, of course, profoundly upsetting and took spot adjacent to our field successful a commercialized establishment. We promote students who are impacted to question enactment done Tuttleman Counseling Services."

Students accidental they were amazed to instrumentality to schoolhouse and past get a TU alert astir a shooting.

"It's truly bittersweet to hear. I mean, a young idiosyncratic similar that being recovered successful the bathroom, that's not thing you perceive often," freshman Finn Glenn said.

Anyone with accusation tin telephone oregon substance Philadelphia constabulary astatine 215-686-TIPS (8477) oregon submit an anonymous extremity online.