A 76-year-old man was found shot in the head and dead on the sidewalk near a North Philadelphia day care midday Monday.
Officers responded to North 26th Street, near West Hagert Street around 11:40 a.m., Philadelphia police said.
They found a man -- later identified as Clerger Exilhomme from nearby North 27th Street -- on the sidewalk bleeding from a gunshot wound to his head, police said. Medics pronounced Exilhomme dead just minutes later.
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Exilhomme's body was found less than a block from a nearby day care center. There were no reports of anyone else being injured.
The year-to-date homicide total in the city as of Monday morning was at 39, according to Philadelphia police data. That homicide total is down about 28% from last year and the lowest at this point in the year since 2019.
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