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Police: Man, 64, used rifle in slaying

A 64-year-old man used a rifle to kill a 27-year-old man last night in West Oak Lane, according to police.

A 64-year-old man used a rifle to kill a 27-year-old man last night in West Oak Lane, according to police.

Police this morning also named the man who died yesterday afternoon after being shot 10 times in Kingsessing.

Last night's slaying happened shortly before 10 p.m. in the 6700 block of Woolston Street - the block were the accused killer, Wallace Curry, lives.

The victim, Kevin Williamson, 27, lived in the 3600 block of North 10th Street in North Philadelphia.

Shot multiple times in the torso, he died at Albert Einstein Medical Center at 11:02 p.m.

Curry was arrested on first-degree murder and related charges.

Williamson may have been dating Curry's daughter, but officials have not yet disclosed a motive.

The man gunned down yesterday in Kingsessing was Marquan Thomas, 27, of the 1600 block of South Ithan Street, one block north of the shooting scene.

Police were called to Chester Avenue and Frazier Street around 12:30 p.m., and found Thomas, who'd been shot 10 times in the chest with a handgun.

He was pronounced dead at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania at 12:56 p.m.