Philadelphia

62-Year-Old Woman Shot in Chest While on Phone With Husband

She was shot in the chest shortly before 3 a.m. near 40th and Aspen streets.

UPDATE Sept. 11, 2017: Police have identified the victim as Elizabeth Lewis. No further information is available at this time. 

A 62-year-old woman on the phone with her husband was killed in the Mantua section of West Philadelphia Sunday morning, police said.

She was shot in the chest shortly before 3 a.m. near 40th and Aspen streets.

The victim’s husband told police he heard his wife involved in a verbal confrontation with a man just before his wife was killed.

She has not been identified.

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