PHILADELPHIA - The new year did not stop gun violence from raging across the city of Philadelphia as police report 10 shootings including three homicides happened in the early hours of 2021.Police in South Philadelphia say a man was shot and killed on the 100 block of West Ritner Street just minutes after the clock struck midnight.
The victim, a 37-year-old man, was struck in the thigh and died at Jefferson Hospital just before 1 a.m.Investigators say two more men were fatally wounded less than 20 minutes apart in shootings across the city.Philadelphia Police Inspector Derrick Wood tweeted a 26-year-old man died after being shot in the head and body on the 2500 block of South 66th Street just before 4:30 a.m.