One slain in W. Phila shooting

Police are investigating a shooting in West Philadelphia this morning that left one man dead.

They believe a second man who later arrived at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania with gunshot wounds to the legs and arms was shot in the same incident, although he claimed he had been shot elsewhere.

The gunfire erupted about 1 a.m. in the area of North 42nd and Stiles Streets in the Parkside section, where police found an extensive crime scene with different shell casings scattered around the area, police said.

A block away, at Memorial Avenue and Viola Street, they found a man with multiple gunshot wounds to chest, police said. He was rushed to HUP, but died at 4:40 a.m.

At 1:22 a.m., a car with a shattered windshield dropped the other man off at HUP.

The man, who was reported in guarded condition, told detectives he had been shot on the 3900 block of Brown Street in Mantua, said Lt. Frank Vanore, a police spokesman.

But investigators who went there found no evidence of a shooting.