Philadelphia police investigators followed a trail of blood from where they found a young man bleeding to death from a gunshot wound to his neck to the Northeast Philadelphia basement apartment where they think the shooting may have happened.
Police received a call for a person shot on the on the street near Algon and Longshore avenues around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday, Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said.
When officers arrived, they found an unresponsive man -- later identified as Isaac Coleman from the nearby Burholme neighborhood -- bleeding heavily from what appeared to be gunshot wound to his neck, Small said. Coleman was transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead just before 10 p.m.
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The shooting victim wasn't immediately named.
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Small said there was a large amount of blood at the scene and a block-long trail of blood that led police into a basement apartment on the 6800 block of Algon Avenue. Investigators found "a large amount of blood" in the basement also.
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"We believe that is where the incident may have started," Small said of the basement apartment.
Police didn't immediately reveal a motive for the shooting as the investigation was ongoing overnight.
Entering Thursday at 60 people had been killed in Philadelphia in 2024 -- most by gun violence, according to Philadelphia police data. That homicide total to date is down about 32% from the same time last year and the slowest pace since 2017.
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