A spate of overnight shootings in Philadelphia left one man fighting for his life, another man dead and a teenager wounded Sunday morning.
In the first, shots rang out outside the Dew Drop Inn bar near 10th and Cumberland streets in North Philadelphia's Hartranft section about 12:45 a.m., police said. People outside told officers who responded that the victim, a 42-year-old man, had been taken to the hospital in a private vehicle, police said.
Officers later located he victim, who was shot in the stomach, at Temple University Hospital, police said. He was pronounced dead there at 1:07 a.m.
About an hour earlier, police had been called to Temple Hospital for a 16-year-old boy who'd been dropped off there suffering from gunshot wounds to his arm and stomach. Police said the teen told officers that he had been walking at 27th and Fletcher streets in North Philadelphia when he saw two men he didn't know arguing across the street. He then heard four or five gunshots, police said the victim recounted, and realized he'd been shot. He called his dad, who took him to Temple Hospital. He was in stable condition on Sunday.
Shortly after 2 a.m., gunfire also erupted as a crowd left a club in North Philadelphia, police said. Police Capt. DeShawn Beaufort said officers were already on the block for a large crowd that had gathered outside a bar at Broad and Parrish streets when they heard gunfire halfway up the block.
When officers ran toward the gunfire, Beaufort said, they found a 23-year-old man shot in the back. They took him to Hahnemann University Hospital, where he was listed in critical condition early Sunday. No arrests have been made.
The shootings remained under investigation Sunday.
