3 shot dead in city, hours apart
Three people were killed in separate incidents from Wednesday through Thursday morning in the city's Nicetown, Fairhill and West Oak Lane neighborhoods, Philadelphia police said Thursday.
Three people were killed in separate incidents from Wednesday through Thursday morning in the city's Nicetown, Fairhill and West Oak Lane neighborhoods, Philadelphia police said Thursday.
About 4:30 a.m. Thursday, officers responded to a report of a man down on the 3900 block of North 16th Street in Nicetown. There, they found a 26-year-old man facedown on the street, his body partly under a pickup truck.
The man had been shot in his upper right back, and was pronounced dead by medics at the scene. His name was not released pending family notification.
Earlier, about 11:20 p.m. Wednesday, officers responded to a report of a person with a gun on the 2700 block of North Darien Street in the Fairhill section of North Philadelphia and found two victims, one dead.
Joel Montanez, 18, who lives on that block, was found on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds, police said. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene.
Officers found the second shooting victim, a 37-year-old man, inside a home. He had been shot in his abdomen and was taken by medics to Temple University Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.
The first homicide in the string of shootings was reported about 8:10 p.m. Wednesday. Police responded to a shooting on the 2000 block of Haines Street in West Oak Lane, where they were told that the victim, later identified as Khalid Harris, 39, of the 1800 block of East Pastorius Street, also in West Oak Lane, had been taken by private vehicle to Einstein Medical Center.
Harris, who was shot multiple times, was pronounced dead at the hospital at 9:30 that night.
According to surveillance video, Harris had been walking to his black pickup truck on Haines Street when two men approached him, one with a gun. One of the men shot Harris, and both drove off in the truck, police said.
No arrests have been made in any of the shootings, and no other details were available.
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