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Phila. police ID two men gunned down over weekend

Philadelphia police have identified two men killed in separate incidents over the weekend. Just after midnight Friday, police officers found Justin Jones, 37, slumped in the drivers' seat of a white BMW 740i on the 4400 block of Longshore Avenue in Tacony.

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    by Aubrey Whelan, Inquirer Staff Writer
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Philadelphia police have identified two men killed in separate incidents over the weekend.

Just after midnight Friday, police officers found Justin Jones, 37, slumped in the drivers' seat of a white BMW 740i on the 4400 block of Longshore Avenue in Tacony.

Jones had been shot multiple times in his upper chest. He was pronounced dead about 10 minutes later by medics.

Police said the motive in the case had not yet been determined, and no arrests had been made.

On Saturday about 1 a.m., police responded to a report of a man with a gun on the 5400 block of Norfolk Street in West Philadelphia.

There, they found Hassan Williams, 21, lying in the street with multiple gunshot wounds. Medics took him to Penn Presbyterian Hospital, where he was pronounced dead about 20 minutes later.

Police also did not specify a motive in the case, and had not arrested anyone.

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