A 21-year-old man was shot on Callowhill Street near Gross Wednesday night, and was pronounced dead at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, police said.
Two men approached the victim and shot him once in his chest around 8:50 p.m., police said.
The man stumbled away from the suspects and collapsed to the ground. Police took the victim to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:10 p.m., Lt. John Walker of the Southwest Detective Division said.
Police were on the scene around 9:40 p.m., and a description of the suspect and the motive behind the shooting was not immediately available.
Police found seven shell casings and drops of blood on the scene.
No arrests were made.
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replace drugs with what apparently they call a "beef"— Gilliam- So you can't comment about the white lady that's having sex with her son's friend and you can't comment about the white lady that supplying drugs and alcohol to minors. But the idiots can lose their minds commenting on an article with less than 100 words? Awful newspaper. Awful website.— HCharles
- No one got killed and the woman is in jail. In Philly that kind of crime is just another Friday night. — CleanupPhilly
- What is the Y-T-D body count?— njredneck
- Yeah, are they not counting anymore? — CleanupPhilly
- Yeah, are they not counting anymore? — CleanupPhilly
- 51 to date. Not quite as high as this time last year, but significantly higher than the 3 before that. — nablu
- 51 to date. Not quite as high as this time last year, but significantly higher than the 3 before that. — nablu
- No body counts on election years. Makes the Dems look bad.— DonQ
- Dent dent dent, another bites the dust!— ZOSO
- Here this should help fill you in on why this kind sir was killed..http://ujsportal.pacourts.us/DocketSheets/CPReport.aspx?docketNumber=MC-51-CR-0006154-2011— aldawg
- Must be a black history munt celebration.— TyroneShoes
Dana DiFilippo has covered murder, mayhem and miscellany at the Daily News since 2000. She grew up in Delaware County and studied journalism and photography at Penn State University. E-mail tips to difilid@phillynews.com.
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Stephanie Farr has been reporting for the Daily News since 2007, covering everything from gay porn stars who entered the burglary business to moon trees, skinheads, murders and naked bike rides. She covers crime, both in the city and suburbs, and keeps clippings of bizarre Associated Press articles. Her favorite this year was the story about the drunk in Punxsutawney who gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dead opossum. E-mail tips to farrs@phillynews.com.
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Phillip Lucas joined the Daily News crime team in 2011. He grew up on the mean streets of Seattle and studied journalism and psychology at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Before landing in the City of Brotherly Love, Phillip was a reporter for The News Journal in Wilmington, Del. Email tips to lucasp@phillynews.com.
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Morgan Zalot is the newest crime reporter at the Daily News, starting in 2011 after interning at the paper twice as a Temple University journalism student. In her past stints at the DN, she covered just about everything, from drunken Phillies fans to a barber shop in a high school to a grisly murder-suicide. She’s a born-and-raised Philly girl who grew up in the Northeast. E-mail tips to zalotm@philly.com.
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