PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — Another person has been shot dead in Philadelphia, adding to the record-high number of homicide victims this year.
Investigators say police were called to Musgrave and Slocum streets in an East Mount Airy neighborhood on a phone tip about a fight between two young men, one dressed all in black and wearing a mask, and reports of a shooting.
When police arrived, they found 18-year-old Lionel Samuels shot in the stomach and back.
The caller said they saw a man running south on Musgrave Street and then around the corner on Phil-Ellena Street.
Investigators searching the area found an injured 21-year-old man on Slocum Street, just a short distance from the shooting. He was unconscious, with an injury to the head. Police say it was not a gunshot wound.
Officers took him to the hospital and are interviewing him.
There have been no arrests, and no weapons were found at the scene.
There have now been 340 homicides in 2021, more than the number of victims each year from 2008 to 2017.
