3 shootings leave 2 dead and 6 injured in Philadelphia

In three incidents of gun violence in less than two hours on Saturday night in Philadelphia, eight people were shot, two of them fatally, police said.

Police released the following reports on Sunday:

At 9:40 p.m., officers from the 25th Precinct found a 28-year-old man with two gunshot wounds to the left side of his abdomen on the highway at West Hunting Park Avenue in the Hunting Park neighborhood. The victim was transported by private vehicle to Temple University Hospital and was in stable condition. No weapons were recovered and no arrests were made.

Shortly after 10:30 p.m., police in the 18th Precinct responded to a radio call for an “armed person” in the 900 block of South 58th Street in Kingsessing and found that two victims of the shooting had been transported to area hospitals by private vehicles. One of them, a 23-year-old man with multiple gunshot wounds to the upper body, was pronounced dead at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania-Cedar Avenue. A 20-year-old man who had been shot in the right leg was in stable condition at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. Also at Penn Presbyterian were two 20-year-old women who had been shot in the same incident and were in stable condition.

There were no arrests.

Shortly after 11 p.m., officers from the 12th Precinct found three shooting victims on South 62nd Street in Elmwood.

A 21-year-old man with gunshot wounds to the chest was pronounced dead at 11:25 p.m. at Penn Presbyterian. A 22-year-old man with gunshot wounds to the buttocks was in stable condition, another 22-year-old man was in critical condition with gunshot wounds to the chest and arm.

Police said the shooting was the result of a car crash involving the victims and the suspected gunman, who was in custody on Sunday. The identity of the gunman was not released by police.