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Police identify couple shot dead in W. Phila.

Investigators this afternoon continue to probe a double shooting in West Philadelphia that left two dead and riddled with bullets, police said.

Investigators this afternoon continue to probe a double shooting in West Philadelphia that left two dead and riddled with bullets, police said.

Officers were called at 12:38 a.m. to the 300 block of N. 62nd St. They found a 19-year-old woman shot twice in the chest and a 19-year-old man shot in the head and buttocks, police said.

Javon Bradley-Dixon, of Chester, was rushed to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where she was pronounced dead at 1:20 a.m.; Jahlil Garrett, of Philadelphia, was taken to HUP where doctors declared him dead at 1:05 a.m.

Police have no suspects or motive in the shootings.