Teenager fatally shot 8 times, woman shot 10 times, as a violent weekend in Philly continued

A 19-year-old male was shot eight times and killed at a Philadelphia gas station Sunday afternoon, police said. Would-be patrons were turned away as police processed a scene of blood and broken glass.

The homicide came 14 hours after a woman was shot 10 times in Southwest Philadelphia, and during a holiday weekend that began violently with 10 people shot, three fatally, in less than seven hours Saturday morning.

The teen was shot throughout the left side of his body in the parking lot of the Global gas station on the 4600 block of Lancaster Avenue in West Philadelphia around 1:45 p.m. Sunday, police said. He was rushed by officers to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead just before 2 p.m., police said.

At the shooting scene, police placed evidence markers around gun shell casings found by a white Nissan sedan, its left rear passenger window shot out.

The day’s first reported homicide was a 35-year-old man shot twice in the stomach on the 800 block of East Willard Street in Kensington at 3:56 a.m. Police said he was pronounced dead at 4:45 a.m. at Temple University Hospital, and a gun was found at the shooting scene.

Two hours earlier, a 17-year-old male was shot in the chest and torso at 28th and Moore Streets in South Philadelphia. He was reported in stable condition at Penn Presbyterian.

It was just before midnight Saturday when a 38-year-old woman was shot once in the left thigh, four times in the right thigh, once in each calf, twice in the left arm and once in the genital area on the 5200 block of Woodland Avenue in the city’s Kingsessing section, police said.

She was reported in stable condition Sunday at Penn Presbyterian, police said.

The violence continued into Sunday night, when a 22-year-old man was shot once in the lower back on the 5800 block of Torresdale Avenue in the Wissinoming section just after 6:30, police said. He was reported in stable condition at Jefferson Torresdale Hospital.

About an hour later, also in Wissinoming, a 23-year-old man was shot multiple times in the left side of the head and back on the 5700 block of Tacony Street, police said. He was reported in critical condition at Jefferson Torresdale Hospital.

About the same time, at 7:26 p.m., police said a 17-year-old male was shot a total of four times, in the buttocks and hip, on the 13000 block of 49th Street in West Philadelphia. He was in critical condition at Penn Presbyterian, police said.

No arrests were reported in any of the shootings.

Staff photographer Yong Kim contributed to this article.