Weekend gun violence leaves 4 dead, 6 hurt
Fatal shootings occurred in several neighborhoods. A man was found shot to death in a car in the Northeast.
A weekend of gun violence in Philadelphia left four dead and at least six people injured. One flare-up involved a shoot-out near an all-night Center City pharmacy early yesterday.
Shortly after 2 a.m., two men were wounded when a disturbance in a nightclub apparently spilled out into the streets of Center City near a CVS Pharmacy, police said. Police identified them as New Jersey residents, ages 25 and 26.
Police said the altercation may have resulted from an earlier dispute in the Tragos nightclub near 19th and Chestnut Streets. Police said that they weren't sure if the incidents were connected, but that the gunshots erupted shortly after a bouncer moved the dispute onto the street and the two men were shot as they attempted to flee.
Both men were treated for leg wounds at area hospitals. Police had no suspects.
The weekend's death toll included Harrison Fambrough, 25, of Northeast Philadelphia, who was found dead in the passenger seat of a parked car on the 2800 block of Welsh Road early Saturday morning.
Fambrough had been shot in the chest and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Homicide detectives had made no arrests in Fambrough's killing as of late yesterday.
Also early Saturday, Jarred Taylor, 29, of the Crescentville section, was shot in the back on the 700 block of Adams Avenue after a dispute reportedly broke out at the Empty Glass Cafe.
The shooting occurred outside the bar. Taylor was taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center and died at 2:30 a.m., police said.
Another man was mortally wounded on the 600 block of West Luray Street in Feltonville Saturday night. Police said Dominic Polk, 28, of West Philadelphia, was taken to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:01 p.m.
In the fourth fatal shooting, an unidentified man suffered multiple gunshot wounds in an apartment in the 1600 block of Harrison Street in the Frankford section shortly before 7 p.m. yesterday.
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene at 7:14 p.m., police said. No arrests were reported.
Those injured in gunfire included a 34-year-old man shot in the thigh on the 3000 block of Judson Street yesterday afternoon. His name was not immediately released. He was in stable condition at Temple University Hospital, according to police.
On Saturday, two men were involved in a shooting on the 700 block of East Hunting Park Avenue about 11:15 p.m. Both were taken to St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in stable condition.
About 9 p.m., a 22-year-old man was shot in the neck and a shoulder on the 200 block of North Salford Street.
He was listed in stable condition at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, police said.