Woman hurt in shooting outside Wells Fargo bank in Rhawnhurst

PHILADELPHIA - Police are investigating, and a witness is speaking out after a daytime shooting erupted in the parking lot of a bank in Philadelphia's Rhawnhurst neighborhood.

Officers responded to Wells Fargo Bank on the 7300 block of Bustleton Avenue just before 9 a.m.

A 61-year-old woman was found with a gunshot wound to the thigh.

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She was transported to a local hospital in stable condition.

Several parking spots were taped off by police at the scene, one containing a folding chair.

FOX 29's Shaynah Ferreira spoke to Gladys Sylvain who witnessed the shooting of her friend who she just so happened to bump into at the bank minutes before the gunfire erupted.

According to the witness, the 61-year-old woman stopped at the bank before taking her child to school. 

"She got out of her car. There’s a car next to her parked and she opened the door and her door hit the side of the car," said Sylvain.

She identified the 61-year-old as Joyce and said that she got out of her car and apparently bumped her door with the car parked next to hers with two people seated inside at the time.

"The lady in that car got out of the car and she said lady you hit my car? And she said what are you gonna do about it cuz you don’t know how to park. You parked wrong." said Sylvain. "Joyce said what you wanna do? What  you gonna do? He said what am I gonna do? He took out his gun…. And said yea I’m shooting you."

The witness recalled a man came out of the second car firing one shot to her thigh.

"But she didn’t fall down. She stood with her bullet in her legs," said Sylvain.

The suspect quickly hopped in the car and fled the scene in what police say is a gray Kia Sorrento with Pennsylvania license plate MDA-1084. It was last seen driving off on Roosevelt Blvd.

Though the victim is stable, her friend remains shaken that this could happen in broad daylight..

"I witnessed how my friend and myself could have lost our lives if there is no God," she said.

She is grateful that the children that were in the car are physically okay and that she and her friend will live to tell the story.

It is still unclear what led to the shooting, and police say no arrests have been made at this time.