Police are trying to piece together where a shooting took place after two people fled from police when a dead man was found in the back of their car in Philadelphia's Kingsessing neighborhood on Sunday evening.
At 6:18 p.m. police officers stopped a blue Nissan that was speeding along 57th and Springfield. The driver and passenger got out of the car and police found an unresponsive man in the backseat with a gunshot wound to the right shoulder, police said.
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While officers were transporting the victim to the police car, the driver and passenger got back in the Nissan and sped away, according to the police.
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Police transported the victim to the hospital where the John Doe was pronounced dead at 6:40 p.m., police said.
At this time police are not aware of where the victim was shot. There have been no arrests and there is no further information at this time.
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