Police: Killer arrested; girl, 16, critical after stabbing

Assaults overnight left a man and teenage girl in critical condition, and Philadelphia police have made an arrest in one of Saturday's two slayings.

The names of the two homicide victims were also released.

At 2:47 this morning, police found the girl, 16, stabbed in the chest in the 1900 block of South Crosky Street in South Philadelphia. She was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

About 20 minutes earlier, a man, 41, was found with gunshot wounds in the 3600 block of North Seventh Street in North Philadelphia, police said.

Shot twice in the abdomen, once in the leg, he was taken to Temple University Hospital.

The arrest came in the bludgeoning death of a Yeadon man who was found in the 1700 block of Bleigh Avenue in the Northeast, police said.

Jeffrey Jackson, 43, of the 100 block of Chester Avenue, was pronounced dead at the scene by medics at 3:48 a.m. Saturday.

He was struck in the head by an unknown object, police said.

Charged with murder and related crimes was Arnold Nelson, 34, of the 3500 block of Oakmont Street in the city's Holmesburg section.

On Saturday afternoon, Edwin Harris, 33, was found with multiple gunshot wounds in a rear driveway at 4000 Reno Street in West Philadelphia.

He was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:50 p.m.

Harris lived about a block away, in the 800 block of North Preston Street.