Another violent weekend in Philadelphia included a double stabbing and two fatal shootings Saturday night into Sunday morning.
Philadelphiaâs homicide rate is up 33% from 2020, with 169 homicides as of Thursday, according to the Philadelphia Office of the Comptroller. As of that day, there had been 512 nonfatal and 144 fatal shootings in the city.
This weekendâs incidents add to the tally.
A man fatally shot in the head and upper torso was found along the side of the road near the 1600 block of West Loudon Street in the cityâs Logan section shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday. Police said he was pronounced dead at Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia.
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