INQUIRER: A 26-year old woman was shot in the leg inside an Old City nightclub this morning, police said. At 1:20 a.m., police responded to a shooting inside CEBU in the 100 block of Chestnut Street, police said. The victim had been shot in the lower right shin. The woman was taken to Jefferson University Hospital where she was listed in stable condition. No arrests were reported. MORE

ASSOCIATED PRESS: PHILADELPHIA — Police say the shooting death of a 15-year-old boy in Southwest Philadelphia appears to be an accident. Police say the victim and another teen were sitting in a car and playing with a gun when it discharged Monday night. The victim was shot in the head. Police say a suspect has been arrested. MORE INQUIRER:  Police Department statistics show that although homicides and violent crime are down in Philadelphia this year, the decline has not kept pace with Nutter and Ramsey’s targets. Homicides are down about 15 percent, not the hoped-for 25 percent, and violent crime, […]

INQUIRER: Two men were stabbed, one fatally, at a shopping center in the 600 block of Washington Avenue in South Philadelphia this morning. Police were called to the scene at 1:04 a.m. today. A 36-year-old male, who was stabbed in the stomach, was pronounced dead at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital at 1:28 a.m. The other victim, a 31-year-old male was stabbed in the back and is in stable condition at Jefferson. In a second Sunday homicide, a male in his 20s was fatally shot in the back early this morning in the 2100 block of North Reese Street in Kensington. […]

INQUIRER: Three overnight slayings capped a bloody weekend in the city as Philadelphia homicide detectives continued to search for shooters who on Thursday gunned down the leader of a North Philadelphia drug gang and his associate. Late Sunday, a 42-year-old man was shot four times shortly after 11 p.m. on the 1000 block of Pallas Street in West Philadelphia. The man, who has not been named by police, was pronounced dead at 5:23 a.m. at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Investigators have no motive or suspects in the slaying. Early this morning, a 27-year-old man was shot once […]

INQUIRER: Police identified the victims as Jose Ortiz, 45, of the 3200 block of Rorer Street and Roberto Beltran, 38, of the 2900 block of Howard Street. The victims dropped immediately and were declared dead at the scene. Police were still trying to determine whether both men, with criminal histories, were targets.Police said one of the men killed was a suspect in other killings in the area, and authorities said yesterday’s slayings might have been retaliation. The crime scene was at an open-air market on West Indiana Avenue near Mutter Street, where casual merchants do a brisk business selling a […]

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 […]

UPDATE: One Philadelphia police officer was killed and a second officer was injured when they both were shot in in North Philadelphia early this afternoon. The suspected gunman was killed. INQUIRER: Two Philadelphia police officers were shot in North Philadelphia early this afternoon and the suspected gunman was killed. The shootings occurred shortly before 2 p.m. in a neighborhood about three blocks north of Temple University. One of the officers was shot near 17th and Dauphin Streets; the other on the 2200 block of Colorado Street, police said. Police shot and killed the suspect gunman. The two officers were rushed […]

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, […]