Two dead, four wounded in separate crimes
Two people were killed and four others wounded in separate, violent crimes that occurred overnight Saturday in Philadelphia, according to police.
Two people were killed and four others wounded in separate, violent crimes that occurred overnight Saturday in Philadelphia, according to police.
The victims included a 62-year-old man shot in the knee, a woman in her early 20s shot six times, and a 49-year-old man fatally stabbed in the chest, police said. Authorities did not identify any of the victims Sunday, and had reported no arrests in any of the six cases.
The first homicide occurred just after 2 a.m. Sunday on the 3600 block of Aspen Street in the Mantua section, police said, when a 49-year-old man was found by police on the street with a stab wound in his chest. The man was taken to Presbyterian Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:37 a.m.
A few minutes after the stabbing, around 2:04 a.m. on the 5400 block of Old York Road in Logan, a 29-year-old man was found by police on the ground outside Einstein Medical Center with three gunshot wounds, including one in the chest, police said. He was pronounced dead from his injuries.
Four people were also wounded in separate shootings across the city Saturday night and Sunday morning, police said.
The victims included a woman in her early 20s who was shot six times, police said - in the stomach, thigh, chest, back, and once in each buttock. That shooting occurred on the 3800 block of North 13th Street in Hunting Park, police said. The woman was in critical condition at Temple University Hospital, according to police.
Another victim was a 62-year-old man found on the 1500 block of West Lehigh Avenue in North Philadelphia with a gunshot wound to his left knee. The man was in stable condition at Temple University Hospital, police said.
Two other shooting victims wounded in separate cases - a 26-year-old man and a 23-year-old man - were also reported in stable condition Sunday, according to police.
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