One man was dead and another was fighting to stay alive after separate shootings in West Philadelphia within minutes of each other Wednesday night.
In the first shooting, police said a man in his late 20s was shot once in the head by an unknown gunman on Redfield Street near Filbert, in West Philadelphia, just after 7:45 p.m. That victim, whose identity police said was unknown, was taken to Presbyterian Medical Center by responding officers. He was pronounced dead there at 9:29 p.m., police said.
No arrests were reported in that deadly shooting, which was the second fatal shooting on Redfield Street on Wednesday, after police said earlier in the day that a customer shot a car repairman to death on Redfield Street near Girard Avenue amid a dispute over work.
Less than 20 minutes after the shooting at Redfield and Filbert streets and less than a mile away, police were called to 60th and Manning streets, where authorities said another man was shot just after 8 p.m.
In that shooting, another man believed to be in his 20s was shot once in the head, police said. That victim, who was also unidentified later Wednesday, was taken Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was in extremely critical condition. Police said no arrests were made in that shooting, and it remained under investigation late Wednesday.
The back-to-back shootings came on the heels of a weekend of gunfire throughout West and Southwest Philadelphia that left several people wounded and a teenager dead.
