PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Police say it’s been a violent few days in Philadelphia with six homicides recorded between early Friday and Sunday night in addition to the shooting death of a police officer.
Police say 25-year-old Quincy White was shot in north Philadelphia’s Yorktown neighborhood shortly after 12:30 a.m. Friday and died soon afterward at a hospital.
Early Saturday, 27-year-old Anthony Glover was shot a number of times in the face and body in the Fairhill neighborhood of north Philadelphia and died at the hospital.
Just before 3 a.m. Saturday, 20-year-old Alexander Villaran was stabbed in the back in northeast Philadelphia’s Huntingdon Valley. He died less than an hour later at a hospital.
Just after 12:30 a.m. Sunday, 21-year-old Zharif Huff-Ali was shot in a north Philadelphia home and died at the scene.
Just before 2 a.m. Sunday, 26-year-old Henry Peterson was shot while sitting inside a car in west Philadelphia and died at a hospital. A 22-year-old woman shot in the head is listed in critical condition.
Shortly before 8:30 p.m. Sunday, 25-year-old Anthony Warren was shot multiple times in the face and torso in northwest Philadelphia’s West Oak Lane neighborhood. He died minutes later at a hospital.
No arrests have been announced in any of those cases.
Early Friday, 46-year-old Cpl. James O’Çonnor IV was shot while serving a homicide warrant at a home in the city’s Frankford section. Funeral services were scheduled Friday but have been postponed indefinitely due to the coronavirus outbreak. Two people in the home were wounded by return fire from another officer and several people were arrested, including the subject of the warrant.
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