3 Phila. slaying victims identified

Police this morning identified three men shot and killed Wednesday in different parts of the city and reported that another man critically wounded over the weekend has died.

Slain late Wednesday on the 5900 block of North Opal Street in East Germantown was 24-year-old Lawrence Mouzone, police said.

He was shot once in the head and once in the right side about 11:20 p.m. and pronounced dead at the scene at 11:34 p.m., police said.

No word yet on a possible motive in the killing.

Police said the man shot dead at South 21st and Mifflin Streets in South Philadelphia early Wednesday was 24-year-old Eric Whittaker.

Whittaker was found riddled with bullets inside a parked car about 2 a.m. and pronounced dead at the scene 15 minutes later, police said.

Dozens of shell casings littered the scene, police said. Whitaker lived on the same block of 21st Street.

Investigators have not disclosed if they have established a possible motive or identified any suspects in that killing.

An arguments is believed to be the motive and police have an idea who they are seeking in the killing early Wednesday of Shane McCreery, 32.

McCreery was shot once in the stomach about 12:50 a.m. Wednesday at West Tioga and North Marvine Streets in North Philadelphia, police said.

He was taken by private car to Temple University Hospital, where he died at 3:25 a.m., police said.

McCreery lived on the 4800 block of A street in the Feltonville section, police said.

Police today reported that a 22-year-old man who was shot twice in the head and critically wounded Saturday at Wakefield and Garfield Avenues in East Germantown's Wister neighborhood city has since died.

Kristen Freeman, who lived nearby on East Clapier Street, was found with multiple gunshot wounds sitting in a Pontiac Grand Prix about 1:40 a.m., police said.

He died at 1:08 a.m. Sunday at Albert Einstein Medical Center, police said today.

Police were seeking a man who ran from the scene, leaving behind a silver GMC Yukon.