Police identify 2 slaying victims, report a 3d death

Police have released the names of two men slain over the weekend and reported the death of another man four days after he was beaten with a baseball bat.

The man killed when gunfire ripped through a 2003 Chevy Suburban in North Philadelphia early Sunday was identified as Hector Plaza, 27, of Fairhill. A second man, wounded in one arm in the shooting on the 500 block of West Cambria Street, was in stable condition at Temple University Hospital. No arrests have been reported.

A man fatally wounded in a shooting early Saturday in a bar on the 2600 block of Sergeant Street in North Philadelphia was identified as Christopher Keeys, who lived nearby on West Huntingdon Street. Keeys, 26, was shot multiple times in the back and side during a fight in the bar that also left a 43-year-old man shot in one thigh and a 32-year-old man stabbed in one leg, police said. Keeys died at 1:26 a.m. at Temple University Hospital. No arrests have been reported.

In another case, police said a man beaten with a baseball bat on Feb. 20 in his home on the 5700 block of Vine Street in West Philadelphia has died. Howard Dickson, 44, succumbed to his injuries at 11:54 p.m. Thursday at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Police are looking for his killer. - Inquirer staff