Three dead, two injured in shootings, stabbing
Three shootings and a stabbing left three people dead and two others injured in Philadelphia overnight, police said Sunday.
Three shootings and a stabbing left three people dead and two others injured in Philadelphia overnight, police said Sunday.
At 10:43 p.m. Saturday, police found two gunshot victims in a gray Dodge Charger at 3800 N. Park Ave. in North Philadelphia. One, a 20-year-old man seated in the front passenger seat, had been shot multiple times in the chest, left arm and left hip. He was taken to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. The second victim, a 17-year-old female in the driver's seat, had been shot several times in the legs and back. She was admitted to Temple University Hospital in critical condition. Police recovered nine 9mm cartridges on scene.
At 11:50 p.m. Saturday, a man without any identification on him was found stabbed multiple times in the neck and chest, lying on the highway at 4900 Griscom St. in Frankford. He was pronounced dead at Aria Health-Frankford Campus.
In an early Sunday morning homicide case, police found a male lying on the highway near 65th Street and Greenway Avenue in West Philadelphia with a gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead at 2:50 a.m.
A 53-year-old man told police that he was robbed overnight by a 5'4" black male with a thin mustache, wearing a dark navy-colored jacket and pants, at 4700 Old York Rd. in North Philadelphia. During the robbery, the assailant's weapon, a silver, semiautomatic handgun, discharged and ricocheted off the ground into the victim's left ankle. The offender fled north on Old York Road.
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