A 23-year-old man was found shot to death inside an abandoned property on Hollywood Street near Stiles in North Philadelphia shortly before 3:30 a.m. yesterday, police said.

Jonte Slate, of Oxford Avenue near Passmore Street, had several gunshot wounds to the neck and back of his head, police said. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene.

Tipsters can contact the Homicide Unit at 215-686-3334 or -3335.

Man wounded in West Phila.

An 18-year-old man was shot once in the hip in West Philadelphia last night, police said. The victim, whose name was not released, was wounded on Pennsgrove Street near 42nd about 10:40 p.m., said Lt. John Walker of Southwest Detectives. The man was admitted to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in stable condition.

Armed SEPTA rider gets 7 yrs.

A convicted drug felon was sentenced yesterday to seven years in federal prison for carrying a gun aboard a SEPTA bus, where he was captured without a shot being fired by a cop who later would be killed in the line of duty.

Police Officer John Pawlowski, 25, was killed Feb. 13 in Logan by another man who fired a .357 Magnum handgun at him through his coat pocket.

Sentenced yesterday was Sorrell Groves, 29. He was captured by Pawlowski after a struggle on a bus on June 10, 2008, at Broad Street and 66th Avenue.

Drive-up bandits rob Brinks

Two masked bandits displaying a handgun and a shotgun didn't even bother getting out of their getaway car as they robbed a Brinks armored-car guard of cash he was taking into a Jenkintown bank at 9:40 a.m. yesterday, according to the FBI.

Special agent J.J. Klaver said that no weapons were fired and that the robbers got away with an undisclosed amount of money intended for the TD Bank on Old York Road.

Klaver said they were in a blue or silver minivan driven by a third man.

Charged with strangling wife

Atlantic County, N.J., authorities have charged John M. Hilyard, 48, of Egg Harbor Township, with strangling his wife, Chun, 45, early Tuesday and dumping her body near a creek. A jogger found the body.

- Staff and wire reports