City's Homicide Total Reaches 100 With Weekend Shootings
Man Slain Saturday Morning In West Philadelphia
POSTED: 10:42 pm EDT March 30, 2007
UPDATED: 11:57 am EDT March 31, 2007
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PHILADELPHIA -- Two more people have lost their lives this weekend as the city's homicide total maintains a deadly pace from last year of more than a killing per day.
The latest slaying was reported at 49th and Aspen streets in the Millcreek section of West Philadelphia.
Dwayne Green, 36, of the 800 block of North 39th Street, was shot in the chest and stomach at 5:44 a.m. and died at Temple University Hospital, police said. There was no word of arrests or a motive.
On Friday night, three people were struck at about 10:20 p.m. near West Lehigh Avenue and North Ringgold Street, police said.
Victims who were ages 15, 19 and 20 were taken to local hospitals, but the youngest was later pronounced dead. Police were reporting no suspects or motive.
Men were also left in critical condition after two other incidents. A 23-year-old man was shot in the stomach on the 6600 block of North 18th Street, while an hour later a 22-year-old man was stabbed on the 5000 block of Wayne Avenue.
On Saturday morning, Mayor John Street attended an Operation Safer Streets community meeting in Southwest Philadelphia.
The mayor was talking not just about the homicides and additional police at the meeting -- held at the First Baptist Church of Paschall at 71st Street and Woodland Avenue -- but also opening additional curfew centers, recruiting more truancy officers and controlling gun violence.
"This is a national problem, people. Homicides are soaring everywhere, and it's guns. It is the guns. All you have to do is put a gun in the hands of an angry man or woman and you have disaster," Street told the crowd.
The list of victims for 2007 is more than 20 percent longer than at the same point last year.
In 2006, there were 406 homicides reported in Philadelphia -- the most since 1997 -- and the 100th did not occur until April 14.
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Man Slain Saturday Morning In West Philadelphia
POSTED: 10:42 pm EDT March 30, 2007
UPDATED: 11:57 am EDT March 31, 2007
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PHILADELPHIA -- Two more people have lost their lives this weekend as the city's homicide total maintains a deadly pace from last year of more than a killing per day.
The latest slaying was reported at 49th and Aspen streets in the Millcreek section of West Philadelphia.
Dwayne Green, 36, of the 800 block of North 39th Street, was shot in the chest and stomach at 5:44 a.m. and died at Temple University Hospital, police said. There was no word of arrests or a motive.
On Friday night, three people were struck at about 10:20 p.m. near West Lehigh Avenue and North Ringgold Street, police said.
Victims who were ages 15, 19 and 20 were taken to local hospitals, but the youngest was later pronounced dead. Police were reporting no suspects or motive.
Men were also left in critical condition after two other incidents. A 23-year-old man was shot in the stomach on the 6600 block of North 18th Street, while an hour later a 22-year-old man was stabbed on the 5000 block of Wayne Avenue.
On Saturday morning, Mayor John Street attended an Operation Safer Streets community meeting in Southwest Philadelphia.
The mayor was talking not just about the homicides and additional police at the meeting -- held at the First Baptist Church of Paschall at 71st Street and Woodland Avenue -- but also opening additional curfew centers, recruiting more truancy officers and controlling gun violence.
"This is a national problem, people. Homicides are soaring everywhere, and it's guns. It is the guns. All you have to do is put a gun in the hands of an angry man or woman and you have disaster," Street told the crowd.
The list of victims for 2007 is more than 20 percent longer than at the same point last year.
In 2006, there were 406 homicides reported in Philadelphia -- the most since 1997 -- and the 100th did not occur until April 14.
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