school let out in time at saint malaki this afternoon and went into lock down at the dismissal hour after gun fire erupted and 25 shots fired by two men during a triple murder ran out in broad daylight in the courtyard of the complex. school parents are still shaken. >> it's scary, if the kids were outside. it's scary. >> police are scouring the area for surveillance video and the area is is the rated in case there say new attack in retaliation for last night's execution. >> they walked up to them and both had guns and fired multiple times striking all four and killing three of them. >> there will be retaliation, they are mad because something happened down there and something happened down there and ore here. don't know. >> a fourth victim remains in critical condition, the three deceased are 27, 32 and 27-year-olds all with long arrested records. the killer remains at large. >> to do that during broad daylight they have to concern for human life. >> this has to stop. every time you turn around someone killing someone. it's not fair to those that are trying to raise their children right.

it happened as children were dismissed from saint malaki's catholic school down the street. >> i just picked my daughter up. just picked my daughter up and email, a text and ca sllay tlg was a shootout. i had just missed it. >> police say that drug par nail yeah was found at the scene it's unclear if it had connection to the violence and all the victims were known to police and a gun was found on one of them. in north philadelphia, katherine scott, channel 6 "action news." >>> opening statements are happening today in the trial of the man accused of killing a pennsylvania police trooper, erick frein could face the death penalty if convicted. he is accused of the ambush that killed corporal by byron dickson. the coverage of the trial will continue this afternoon on "action news." look for john rawlins' live records at 4:00 and constant updates online at 6abc.com. >>> in other news, a man hit by a vehicle riding a bike in the port richmond section of philadelphia remains in critical condition. the victim believes to be in his late 40s or 50s was hit just after 10:30 last night at aramin

and the shots were fired at 3:30 yesterday afternoon while students were dismissed from the saint malaki school from across the street. >> whenever you can be so brazen to fire well over 20 gunshots and striking four people and anyone could have been around. >> the school was placed on lockdown and no children were hurt. police are looking for two men that fled the scene in a small gray dodge suv. >>> a man's body was pulled from the pond in delaware this morning respect the pond is on the 800 block of warwick road in middleton. authorities don't know who the man is and further tests are needed to figure out how he died. and a sniper accused of targeting people faced a jury this morning. lauren mitchell is facing attempted murder charges. mitchell aregally opened fire in delilah's and it narrowly missed a woman hitting her vehicle twice. >>> all right turning to the weather now the feel of spring is settling in nicely for your tuesday but keep the umbrella close by. sky 6 hd looking live at the ben franklin bridge, you see the cloudy skies and clouds moving in. and we'll soar into the 70

the shootout happened at 3:30 in the afternoon as children were being dismissed from saint malaki's catholic school. >> to do that in broad daylight. they had no concern for human life and it's our job to quickly get these individuals off the street than is what we plan on doing. >> one man killed had a gun on him but it was not fired during the confrontation. no witnesses have come forward but there were many people in the area including parents picking up their kids for dismissal time. police are looking at surveillance video and social media for any clues to a motive and stepping up patrols in the area tonight worried about possible retaliations, there is a now $70,000 reward for tips and added a $10,000 to that this afternoon to get more information. >> thank you. >>> now to accuweather on a tuesday that started off cloudy but gave way to a nice afternoon. meteorologist, melissa magee, is in for adam with a first check of where we go from here. >> reporter: things look up as we get into the middle half of the work week, stormtracker 6 live double scan radar 3-d you can see the heavy rain

the nearby saint malaki school was on lockdown for a time. police were searching the area for video and fearing retaliatory violence. >> they were all friends buddies and all four are well known to police and come in can't with us on many occurrences. >> and police have not locked down a motive for the executions. a fourth victim remains hospitalized in critical condition. police say there is a history of gans violence in this part of town, it would be over a war of drug turf or something as insults on social media. >> in broad daylight 24 rounds fired it could hit an innocent kid or person. we feed the help we can get to get these individuals off the street. >> reporter: rick an anti-violence vigil is expected to begin at 11th and styles in about a half hour. vernon odom, channel 6 "action news." >> thank you. >>> in other news tonight the trial of eric frein the man accused of ambushing two pennsylvania state troopers underway. frein opened fire on douglas and dickson last late year. douglas was wounded and dickson died frein led police on