Two gunmen fired on a group of people gathered for a trophy presentation after a neighborhood youth basketball game, killing the league's organizer and a teenager, and wounding four others, AP reported. About 50 people were at a playground when the shooting occurred at about 10:30 p.m. Thursday, but the violence had nothing to do with the earlier basketball game, Deputy Police Commissioner Richard Ross said. The two men fired at least 15 shots and have not been caught, police said. League organizer Miles Mack, 42, started the league in his West Philadelphia neighborhood in 2004 as a way of keeping children out of trouble and, according to the league's Web site, «to provide an alternate outlet to a sometimes dangerous environment.» The league, the Xtra Miles Developmental Basketball League, sought to provide children with positive role models and to help youth live up to their potential, according to the Web site. The Web site notes that, besides basketball equipment, the league provided players with information on college, jobs and drug prevention. Three of the injured were hospitalized in critical condition. A sixth person was treated and released with a graze wound. Investigators believe the 19-year-old who was killed, Darren Hankins, may have been the target.
