Four shootings ravaged Philadelphia on a particularly violent Martin Luther King Jr. Day, as the city grapples with a record homicide rate and skyrocketing crime.
on the 6400 block of Akron Street at around 7:30 p.m., when they found a man on the street who had been shot in the back. He was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
While they were responding to the incident on Akron Street, police received a call about a man and woman in their 30s who were found shot in their car on nearby Cottman Avenue. The woman had suffered a graze wound to her shoulder, and the man had been shot in the head but was still alive. They were both taken to the hospital, where the man was immediately taken into surgery.
An hour before they found that woman, police responded to a call at the 2100 block of North 20th Street, where theywho had been shot once in the face and twice in the stomach. He was later pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital.Philadelphia Police are continuing to investigate each of the shootings and have urged the public to come forward with any information.
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