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INQUIRER: Police this morning identified two recent homicide victims and announced arrests in one of the slayings. Marta Martinez-Lozada, 37, was shot dead Tuesday afternoon during a botched robbery in Kensington. A witness flagged down police in the 2600 block of Lawrence Street and said Martinez had been gunned down by an unidentified male who fled the scene in a red Honda driven by woman, police said. Detectives yesterday arrested Oscar Alvarado, 25, and Cynthia Alvarado, 28, and charged them each with murder, robbery, and various weapons counts. A man killed yesterday in a Frankford alleyway was identified as Thomas […]

INQUIRER: The body of a woman was found this morning on a Philadelphia city golf course, police said. A golfer discovered the corpse about 10:30 a.m. near the 14th hole of the Juniata Golf Course near Fisher’s Lane and Ramona Avenue, said Lt. Frank Vanore, spokesman for the Philadelphia police. Investigators have not determined the cause or manner of death, Vanore said.  * RELATED: A triple shooting in North Philadelphia overnight critically injured a 12-year-old boy, police said. Two male teenagers were also wounded after gunfire erupted shortly after 1 a.m. on the 1400 block of North Broad Street. The […]

INQUIRER: Police this morning identified a 53-year-old man who was shot to death in Brewerytown last night. Steven Tucker, of the 2300 block of Seybert Street in North Philadelphia, was found shortly before 8:30 p.m. in the driver’s seat of a 1994 gold Mercury Grand Marquis suffering gunshot wounds to his chest. He was taken to Hahnemann University Hospital and was pronounced dead at 8:53 p.m. No arrests were reported. MORE

INQUIRER: A 32-year-old man was fatally shot early this morning in West Philadelphia, police said. The man, whose name was not released, was shot multiple times around 1 a.m. at 55th Street and Baltimore Avenue, police said. He was transported to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and pronounced dead.

INQUIRER: City police concluded a probe of a fatal shooting in a Southwest neighborhood that was in self-defense. A man in his 20s was fatally shot twice in the chest shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday in the 5100 block of Warrington Street near South 52d Street in Southwest Philadelphia. Police Information Officer Christine O’Brien said the man and a 17-year-old male accomplice were attempting to rob two other men on the street. They were shot by the men they were trying to hold up, O’Brien said. The teen was shot twice in the left arm and was in stable condition […]

INQUIRER: When gunfire punctured the night in West Philadelphia, three teens sitting on a rowhouse porch started to run. All three were shot, and two managed to take refuge inside a rowhouse in the 200 block of South Ithan Street. The third – the oldest in the group at 18 – fell to the ground with multiple wounds, including a shot to the head. Hakim Griffin remained in critical condition yesterday at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania while his friends, ages 14 and 17, were treated for non-life-threatening injuries. MORE UPDATE: Shooting victims are piling up in Philadelphia, […]

INQUIRER: Two men were gunned down in unrelated incidents last night in Philadelphia, police said. Police were called to the 1500 block of N. Bouvier in North Philadelphia shortly after 8:30 p.m. to find Rockie Jenkings, 25, dead at the scene of multiple gun shot wounds to his neck and torso. Investigators have no motive or suspects in the killing. * About an hour later, patrol officers in Kensington were called to 800 block of E. Thayer Street. They found Sharees Brown, 24, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Brown was taken to Temple University Hospital where he was pronounced dead […]

INQUIRER:  Two men were shot and killed early yesterday, police said. Dwayne Davis, 30, was gunned down in a residence on Memphis Street near Allegheny Avenue, in Port Richmond, shortly after 12:30 a.m., said Homicide Lt. Philip Riehl. Davis was pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital at 1:20 a.m. Riehl said the motive was robbery. * Police this morning identified a 33-year North Philadelphia man who was killed in a shooting late last night. Shortly after 11 p.m., police responded to a report of a person with a gun at the intersection of 20th Street and Susquehanna Avenue and found […]

INQUIRER: A “vicious and cowardly attack” at a West Philadelphia playground last night left two men dead and three others in critical condition, Deputy Commissioner Richard Ross said at a morning news conference. At about 10:30 p.m., two men in hoodies started firing as trophies were being presented after the championship game of a youth basketball league at McAlpin Playground, 36th and Aspen Streets, in the city’s Mantua section. At least 15 shots were fired. The organizer of the league – Miles Mack, 42, of the 3400 block of Spring Garden Street – was taken to the Hospital of the […]

INQUIRER: A Philadelphia man was shot dead yesterday afternoon on a street in the city’s Kensington section, police said. Keith Bolden, 31, was lying on the 800 block of Thayer Street with a gunshot wound to the chest when police found him about 2:30 p.m. Emergency crews took Bolden, of the 5100 block of Saul Street, to Temple University Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 4:35 p.m., a police spokeswoman said. Investigators have no motive or suspect in the slaying. MORE   INQUIRER: Two men found dead yesterday in an apartment above a North Philadelphia car stereo store had […]

INQUIRER: The Labor Day weekend got off to a violent start in Philadelphia with three men, including a 78-year-old, shot to death before the sun rose this morning.Police had made no arrests today in any of the shootings. Police identified the elderly victim as Enor Williams of the 6300 block of N. 11th St. He was shot in the face shortly after 6 p.m. Friday outside a Veterans of Foreign Wars post at 2033 N 33rd St. in Strawberry Mansion. Homicide detective Lt. Mark Deegan said he was told Williams was a veteran, but didn’t know whether he was a […]

DAILY NEWS: WHEN POLICE phoned early yesterday, the mother of an 11-year-old boy assured them that her son was at home in bed. But surveillance cameras at the Suburban Armory in Delaware County show he was miles from his Philadelphia home. Her little boy, police said, had been arrested as part of a teenage posse that tried to pull off a brazen gun-shop heist in Collingdale Monday night by dismantling the external alarm system and throwing a boulder through the window. They arrived on public transportation and used a pair of schoolbags to carry 14 semiautomatic handguns — plus the […]