Weekend of bars, blood & death

The gunfire that claimed Christopher Spence's life Saturday at a Frankford bar was just one of five shootings at city taverns over the weekend.

According to police, here are the others:

* 1:13 a.m. Saturday, inside Scotty's Bar on Ellsworth Avenue near 15th Street, in South Philadelphia, Mikal Grant, 31, is shot several times in the chest, and a 42-year-old man is shot once in his left thigh. Both men are taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where, despite being rushed into surgery, Grant is pronounced dead at 4 a.m. The other man is listed in stable condition. Police have no arrests or motives.

* 3:17 a.m. Saturday, outside the Karma Nightclub, on Bustleton Avenue near President Street, in Northeast Philadelphia, patron Sean Flanagan, 32, pulls a revolver and fires once at a security guard. The bouncer tries to disarm Flanagan before pulling his own gun and shooting Flanagan, who is hit in the chest and stomach. Flanagan is taken to Aria Health's Frankford hospital, where he is pronounced dead at 4:14 a.m. Police clear the bouncer and say the shooting was justifiable.

* 1 a.m. Sunday, two men are shot outside the Bleu Martini nightclub, on 2nd Street near Market, in Old City. One victim, 29, shot in the stomach, is in stable condition at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. The other man, whose age is not immediately known, is shot several times and is in critical condition at Jefferson. One person is in custody.

* 1:27 a.m. Sunday, Sherrief Watkins, 22, is shot in the chest and back outside the Off the Clock Bar, on 2nd Street near Champlost, in Olney. He is taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center, where he is pronounced dead at 1:43 a.m.