FILE PHOTO: In this Nov. 19, 2018, file photo, police gather at the scene of a quadruple fatal shooting in Philadelphia. Philadelphia's homicide rate is the highest in over a decade, as a particularly violent summer morphed into a deadly fall and the mayor declared gun violence a public health emergency.
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FILE PHOTO: In this Nov. 19, 2018, file photo, police gather at the scene of a quadruple fatal shooting in Philadelphia. Philadelphia's homicide rate is the highest in over a decade, as a particularly violent summer morphed into a deadly fall and the mayor declared gun violence a public health emergency.
(Philadelphia) — Police say violence claimed the lives of six people over the weekend in Philadelphia.
Among the victims was a 15-year-old boy shot, who was shot twice in the chest in north Philadelphia Saturday afternoon and a 24-year-old man shot in the head Saturday night in west Philadelphia.
On Saturday evening in Center City, a man in his 30s died an hour after he was stabbed in the neck.
Gunfire in north Philadelphia later claimed the lives of a 24-year-old man and a 31-year-old man, and the shooting death of a 24-year-old man Sunday afternoon in northwest Philadelphia brought the total to six.