PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 12 (UPI) -- A Philadelphia hospital worker who organized a neighborhood basketball league was gunned down as he handed out season trophies.
Miles Mack, 42, was one of two people killed at the McAlpin Playground Thursday night, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported. Police said that the other victim, Darren Hankins, 19, may have been the intended target of the two shooters.
Mack was shot in the back and bled to death when the bullet hit an artery. Four people were wounded.
Two men wearing hoodies began shooting after the conclusion of the championship game for the X-Tra Miles Developmental Basketball League. No arrests had been made late Friday.
Deputy Police Commissioner Richard Ross said the shooting was unrelated to the game.
"This was a vicious and cowardly act of violence, as obviously is evidenced by most of these people were shot in the back," Ross said at a news conference.
Mack was an orderly at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He is survived by two sons in their early 20s.
"He loved the kids in the community," his mother, Sandra Mack, said.
