PHILADELPHIA — The Labor Day weekend got off to a violent start in Philadelphia with 10 people shot, three fatally, within the first seven hours of Saturday morning, according to police.
The first shooting was reported shortly before 1 a.m. at Chew and Locust Avenues in East Germantown, where a 26-year-old male was shot once in the chest, police said. He was transported by private vehicle to Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia, where he was reported in stable condition, police said
About two-and-a-half hours later, just after 3:30 a.m., two men were killed at 52nd Street and Woodland Avenue in Kingsessing. Police said one, believed to be 20 to 30 years old, was shot once in the back of the head and was pronounced dead by medics at the scene. A 39-year-old man was shot multiple times throughout the body and was pronounced dead just before 4 a.m. at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, police said.
