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Police identify woman fatally shot in Southwest Phila.

Police yesterday identified the mother who was shot to death inside her Bartram Village apartment in Southwest Philadelphia on Saturday as Ruth Hayes.

The 27-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania after she was shot with a semiautomatic handgun about 11 a.m. in her third-floor apartment in the 2700 block of South 56th Street, police said.

Hayes lived there with a young son, according to police. There are no suspects, and the investigation is continuing. - Jan Hefler