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Two people are dead and three were wounded after a series of shootings in Philadelphia on Saturday. <\/p>\n
Police said they were investigating a potential murder-suicide after finding a man and woman dead in Port Richmond<\/a> on Saturday afternoon. <\/p>\n Around 1:35 p.m., officers responded to a reported shooting on the 2800 block of Mercer Street, police said. There, police said, they found a man and woman with gunshot wounds, and both were pronounced dead at the scene. <\/p>\n \u201cPreliminary information indicates the incident was domestic in nature and is being investigated as a murder-suicide,\u201d police said. <\/p>\n It was the third shooting of the day, according to police reports.<\/p>\n Earlier, police said, two people were critically injured by gunfire in the Hunting Park<\/a> section of the city.<\/p>\n Around 12:30 a.m., officers responded to the 4300 block of North Fifth Street after receiving a radio call saying a man had been shot near a barbershop and another man had been seen with a gun, police said.<\/p>\n Officers found two people who had been shot inside a gray Honda Pilot SUV, police said. The victims were taken to Temple University<\/a> Hospital. <\/p>\n Police said a 22-year-old man had been \u201cshot multiple times in the upper torso\u201d and was in critical but stable condition. <\/p>\n A 17-year-old girl had been shot in the head and left leg and was in \u201cserious-critical condition,\u201d police said.<\/p>\n Capt. Shaun Butts told reporters at the scene <\/a>on Saturday that police found 25 spent shell casings, three projectiles, and \u201csome money left on the scene and all throughout the car.\u201d <\/p>\n Separately, police said they were investigating another shooting on South Fourth Street that happened around 2 a.m. The circumstances around that shooting are unknown, police said. Police noted that a man with a gunshot wound walked into Thomas Jefferson University<\/a> Hospital around 8:15 a.m. <\/p>\n No arrests have been made, nor motive determined, in either overnight shooting, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min Two people are dead and three were wounded after a series of shootings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,112360],"class_list":["post-266193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-shooting-philadelphia-port-richmond-hunting-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266193","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=266193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}