Police: Man shoots woman, then himself in Southwest Philly home

A man fatally shot himself in Southwest Philadelphia on Sunday after shooting a woman and then barricading himself in a home, police said.

Police responded just before 5:30 a.m. to the 2600 block of Holbrook Street. The woman, 61, was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center by police and was in stable condition, police said.

A SWAT team went into the home just before 7 a.m. and found the man, 37, inside a second-floor bedroom with a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police not not release his identity.