Philadelphia police are investigating after a man shot and killed an alleged would-be robber on Tuesday night.
It happened just before 7 p.m. on the 7000 block of North 15th Street in the city's West Oak Lane neighborhood.
Police say a man in his 30s was shot three times in the back by the man he was allegedly trying to rob."We were also told by the shooter, the perpetrator of the robbery was parked inside a vehicle. There was also a female in that vehicle. We believe the female that with the male who was shot, after the shooting drove the vehicle to 6700 block of North 17th Street.
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