5 slayings in 23 hours

Since midafternoon Thursday, four shootings and a brutal beating in Philadelphia have left five people dead and three others wounded, according to police.

The bloodiest incident claimed a Dresher woman's life and hospitalized two Philadelphia men who were sitting in an Olney bar, when a gunman entered shortly after 11:30 p.m.

They were inside J&J's Lounge at 200 W. Duncannon Ave., "when the gunman just brazenly opened the front door of the bar and just started firing shots," said Chief Inspector Scott Small.

All three were taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center, where the woman, identified by police as Leslie Delzingaro, 45, was pronounced dead at 11:58 p.m.

The men were in stable condition. One, 28 years old, was shot in the lower back. The other, 29, was shot in a hand and a shoulder.

Because the bar was crowded and at least five shots were fired, "we're actually fortunate there were only three victims," Small told CBS3.

Detectives are checking surveillance tapes to get a lead on the identity of the gunman, he said.

This afternoon, homicide detectives were probing a a fatal beating in North Philadelphia. A 35-year-old man was pummelled to death and left on the street on the 700 block of Susquehanna Avenue. Police have no motive or suspect in the slaying.

This morning, two more shootings occurred.

A man died shortly before 4 a.m. after being shot once in the head and twice in the back at 7th and West Sedgley Street in North Philadelphia. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

In Port Richmond, Kevin Lonergan, 28, was shot about 5 a.m. inside his residence on the 2600 block of E. Toronto Street. He was taken to Temple University Hospital where he died of a gunshot wound to his back at 5:16 a.m.

Police named the victim of a shooting that took place Thursday afternoon in the 4900 block of Marvine Street in the city's Logan section.

Derrick Holley, 21, who lived on the block, was shot in the chest and a hand about 1:48 p.m. He was pronounced dead at Einstein at 2:20 p.m.

A second victim, 34, shot in the buttocks and back, was treated and released by Einstein.

The two men were standing on the street when unidentified gunmen approached and fired, police said.