Wednesday night’s shooting is the third in the last four weeks that police have described as targeted “execution-style” attacks.
Crime scene investigators at the scene of a fatal shooting of a man on a bicycle at Snyder Ave and15th St. in South Philadelphia on Wednesday. About 40 shots were fired, according to police.on Wednesday night when three gunmen shot at him at least 40 times, killing him in what police say was an “execution-style” slaying.
The gunmen then got back into the Nissan and fled eastbound on Snyder Avenue toward Broad Street, police said. Officers found the getaway car abandoned at 2000 South Front Street at about 11 p.m. Wednesday. On Thursday, the sounds of the morning rush of commuters waiting for the bus on Snyder Avenue and grabbing a breakfast pastry from nearby Okie Dokie Donuts could be heard at the scene of the shooting, a block away from Broad Street and about the same distance from the Passyunk Avenue business district.
Yang, who has owned the convenience store with her husband for about seven years, said that the area is generally safe, and that she could recall only one other shooting, four years ago.
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