{"id":170358,"date":"2026-04-19T21:12:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170358\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T21:12:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T21:12:05","slug":"2-killed-3-injured-in-saturday-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/170358\/","title":{"rendered":"2 killed, 3 injured in Saturday shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people were killed and three others were wounded in separate incidents of gun violence Saturday across <a href=\"https:\/\/metrophiladelphia.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said a man died shortly after he was shot at around 2:30 p.m. on the 400 block of Tasker Street in <a href=\"https:\/\/metrophiladelphia.com\/south-philadelphia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">South Philadelphia<\/a>. Earlier, at around 12:45 a.m., a man was gunned down on the 1800 block of E. Clementine Street in <a href=\"https:\/\/metrophiladelphia.com\/riverwards\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kensington<\/a>, according to police. Law enforcement did not provide any additional information about the killings.<\/p>\n<p>A person of interest was apprehended after a 40-year-old man was shot during a robbery at around 11:30 p.m. Saturday in a parking lot on the 4800 block of Broad Street in Logan, investigators said. He was hospitalized with a wound to his left calf and was listed in stable condition, the PPD added.<\/p>\n<p>In the Hunting Park neighborhood, someone shot a man just before 6:30 p.m. on the 500 block of W. Erie Avenue, police said. He was being treated for nonlife-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Just before 2 p.m., a man was struck by gunfire on the 6300 block of E. Wister Street in West Oak Lane, according to authorities. There was no word on his condition.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about any of the shootings is asked to call or text the PPD tip line at 215-686-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n<p>Through April 18, there had been 33 homicides this year in Philadelphia, compared with 60 on the same date in 2025, according <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phillypolice.com\/crime-data\/crime-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">to police data<\/a>. The number of shooting victims is also down 41%.<\/p>\n<p>Counseling, peer support, and victim advocacy services are available for victims, family members, and others affected by gun violence. Go to<a href=\"https:\/\/metrophiladelphia.com\/stories\/resources-for-victims-of-gun-violence-in-philadelphia,96902\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0metrophiladelphia.com\/gun-violence-resources<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/metrophiladelphia.com\/stories\/philadelphia-university-city-shooting-video-suspect-sought-pollard,135730\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Video shows University City killing as police search for suspect<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tKeywords<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tPhiladelphia,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t crime,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t shootings,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t gun violence,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t police,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Kensington,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t South Philadelphia,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Logan,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t Hunting Park,\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t West Oak Lane\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people were killed and three others were wounded in separate incidents of gun violence Saturday across Philadelphia.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[31,758,22652,8921,30866,69,71,70,206,6803,645,18522],"class_list":{"0":"post-170358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-crime","9":"tag-gun-violence","10":"tag-hunting-park","11":"tag-kensington","12":"tag-logan","13":"tag-philadelphia","14":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","15":"tag-philadelphia-news","16":"tag-police","17":"tag-shootings","18":"tag-south-philadelphia","19":"tag-west-oak-lane"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}