Shootings in three different neighborhoods leave three people dead. Read more Alejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer
by Michelle Myers Published Aug. 24, 2025, 4:26 p.m. ET
Three people are dead and one injured in four shootings in a little more than three hours in Philadelphia Sunday morning.
Police provided the following accounts:
The first homicide occurred around 12:45 a.m. on the 600 block of East Thayer Street in Kensington , where police found a man, whose age was not provided, shot. He was transported by officers to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 1:02 a.m.
At 12:55 a.m., police responded to a report of a shooting at Spencer Street and Warnock Avenue in Fern Rock . A man of unknown age was taken by private vehicle to Jefferson Eins