In all four cases, police say they recovered no weapons and had made no arrests.
ALEJANDRO A. ALVAREZ / Staff PhotographerPhiladelphia police said they were investigating four separate shooting incidents that occurred in a five-and-a-half-hour period on Saturday that left four people dead.
A 54-year-old man was pronounced dead in the 100 block of Herman Street, in East Germatown, shortly after 7 a.m., about 10 minutes after officers responded to the scene of the shooting, police said. A few hours later, not far from that incident, a a 45-year-old woman was found with a gunshot wound of the chest in her living room, in the 100 block of East Pastorius Street. She was pronounced dead at the scene at 9:40 a.m., police said.For now, said police spokesperson Miguel Torres Saturday night, the shootings were being investigated as “separate incidents.”
Shortly before 9 a.m., a 33-year-man was fatally wounded near Cleveland and Cumberland Streets, in North Philadelphia, according to police. He was taken to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9 a.m. A fourth deadly shooting occurred around 12:15 p.m. in the 7300 block of North 19th Street, in West Oak Lane. Police said a 26-year-old man “was shot multiple times throughout the body” and died at Albert Einstein Medical Center.» READ MORE:
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