At least 22 people were shot, four of them fatally, Friday into Sunday night in Democrat-run Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
The weekend’s first fatal shooting occurred around 8:00 p.m. at a barbershop “in the 2000 block of Kensington Avenue,” the Philadelphia Inquirer noted.
The shooting victim, 43-year-old Adinson Suarez-Marte, was taken to a hospital, where he died.
At 8:45 p.m., a second fatal shooting occurred, this time in “the 5600 block of Baltimore Avenue.” A 21-year-old man was among three individuals shot in the incident, and he succumbed to his wounds.
The deceased 21-year-old was identified as Michael Goodwin.
The Daily Voice reported that 29-year-old Katie Dales was shot and killed in a murder-suicide Saturday at 12:05 a.m.
Dales was the mother of three children, all of whom allegedly witnessed her being shot to death.
The weekend’s fourth shooting fatality occurred as a result of a “double shooting” that resulted in the death of a 20-year-old man,WPVI reported.
NBC 10 noted that violence continued in Philadelphia on Monday, with two men found shot and “laid out on the ground” at 3:00 a.m. Monday. One of the men died at the scene and the second died at a hospital.
Police recovered what they believe to be the murder weapon, a gun that was stolen years ago “during a robbery.”
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