A man working at his family's Philadelphia corner store is dead after he was hit multiple times while getting into an SUV in a drive-by shooting after closing up the shop Thursday night, police said.
Philadelphia police on patrol heard several gunshots around 8 p.m. and rushed toward the 2200 block of West Berks Street, Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said.
Officers arrived to find a man -- later identified as 33-year-old Ignacio Rodriguez -- in the passenger's seat of a parked SUV, Small said. Rodriguez was bleeding heavily from his chest and head.
Rodriguez was taken to the hospital by responding officers where he died minutes later, police said.
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Witnesses told investigators Rodriguez worked at his family's corner variety store, Small said.
"The 33-year-old male just got done working his shift at that store at 8 o'clock," Small said.
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He was getting into the passenger seat of the SUV with another family member when a sedan drove up on Berks and someone opened fire, investigators said.
The driver of the car drove off along West Berks Street, Small said.
Rodriguez lived on the same block where he was killed, police said.
Police said several surveillance video angles showed the killing.
"It appears that he was targeted," Small said, while noting the sedan seemed to slow down and take aim at the man who died.
No arrests were made as of Thursday night.
Entering Thursday, at least 426 people have been killed in Philadelphia, according to Philadelphia police homicide data. That's down about 1% from last year, which wound up setting the city record for homicides in a year.
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Correction (Oct. 14, 2022, 5:35 a.m.): This story has been updated to reflect that the person killed was a worker at his family store.
