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Man Fatally Shot In Pharmacy Parking Lot
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Man Fatally Shot In Pharmacy Parking Lot
Police: First Shooting Occurs In Rite Aid Parking Lot
POSTED: 3:25 pm EDT June 4, 2007
UPDATED: 9:02 pm EDT June 4, 2007
PHILADELPHIA -- Less than two hours after a man was shot to death outside a pharmacy, dozens of gunshots rang out just a few blocks away.
The first shooting occurred at about 2:49 p.m. in the parking lot outside the Rite Aid Pharmacy at Broad Street and Wyoming Avenue in the city's Logan section, police said.
One police source told NBC 10's Mike Strug that the shooting wasn't a random homicide but looked like a hit, with the killer waiting for the victim.
Grainy surveillance video from a camera at the pharmacy -- as police described it -- appeared to show a blue pickup truck pulling up to the building just before 3 p.m. Several men got out and almost immediately at least one shot was fired, possibly by a man waiting along the store.
A single shell casing was left in the street where police believe the killer stood and fired.
A 29-year-old victim, struck in his left side, fell against a tan minivan parked along side the pickup. He was rushed to Temple University Hospital but later pronounced dead.
The shooter ran north on Belfield Avenue, police said.
The men in the pickup jumped back in and drove off. There's speculation they may have gone to get help, that the victim was too big for them to move, Strug reported. The pickup came back, but by then paramedics were at the scene and the men in the pickup apparently disappeared.
Police had one side of the Rite Aid roped off with caution tape as they continued to investigate.
The fatal shooting was Philadelphia's 169th of the year, police said.
The second shooting was reported just after 4:30 p.m. about three blocks from the Rite Aid.
Police placed at least 45 markers to show all of the shell casings on the 4400 block of North Cleveland Street in the city's Nicetown section.
The 18-year-old victim of that shooting was struck in the back, rushed to Albert Einstein Medical Center and listed in stable condition.
Police took one person into custody near the Cleveland Street scene but were saying whether he was charged with any role in the shooting.
Detectives were also trying to determine whether there was any connection between the two shootings.
At least two other shootings were also reported in the city Monday afternoon and evening.
Two men were taken to Temple University Hospital in stable condition after being struck by bullets at about 8 p.m. in the middle of the intersection at Sepviva and Letterly streets in the city's Kensington section.
And another man was reported shot at about 4 p.m. near 54th Street and Osage Avenue.
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Man Fatally Shot In Pharmacy Parking Lot
Police: First Shooting Occurs In Rite Aid Parking Lot
POSTED: 3:25 pm EDT June 4, 2007
UPDATED: 9:02 pm EDT June 4, 2007
PHILADELPHIA -- Less than two hours after a man was shot to death outside a pharmacy, dozens of gunshots rang out just a few blocks away.
The first shooting occurred at about 2:49 p.m. in the parking lot outside the Rite Aid Pharmacy at Broad Street and Wyoming Avenue in the city's Logan section, police said.
One police source told NBC 10's Mike Strug that the shooting wasn't a random homicide but looked like a hit, with the killer waiting for the victim.
Grainy surveillance video from a camera at the pharmacy -- as police described it -- appeared to show a blue pickup truck pulling up to the building just before 3 p.m. Several men got out and almost immediately at least one shot was fired, possibly by a man waiting along the store.
A single shell casing was left in the street where police believe the killer stood and fired.
A 29-year-old victim, struck in his left side, fell against a tan minivan parked along side the pickup. He was rushed to Temple University Hospital but later pronounced dead.
The shooter ran north on Belfield Avenue, police said.
The men in the pickup jumped back in and drove off. There's speculation they may have gone to get help, that the victim was too big for them to move, Strug reported. The pickup came back, but by then paramedics were at the scene and the men in the pickup apparently disappeared.
Police had one side of the Rite Aid roped off with caution tape as they continued to investigate.
The fatal shooting was Philadelphia's 169th of the year, police said.
The second shooting was reported just after 4:30 p.m. about three blocks from the Rite Aid.
Police placed at least 45 markers to show all of the shell casings on the 4400 block of North Cleveland Street in the city's Nicetown section.
The 18-year-old victim of that shooting was struck in the back, rushed to Albert Einstein Medical Center and listed in stable condition.
Police took one person into custody near the Cleveland Street scene but were saying whether he was charged with any role in the shooting.
Detectives were also trying to determine whether there was any connection between the two shootings.
At least two other shootings were also reported in the city Monday afternoon and evening.
Two men were taken to Temple University Hospital in stable condition after being struck by bullets at about 8 p.m. in the middle of the intersection at Sepviva and Letterly streets in the city's Kensington section.
And another man was reported shot at about 4 p.m. near 54th Street and Osage Avenue.