Police responded to two locations within blocks of each other Wednesday night, finding three people shot, two of which died.
The suspect was also wounded after police shot at him. He is now in custody.
It is unknown if the shootings were related, police say.
Police responded to a shooting at 26th and Tasker streets at around 8 p.m. and found a man shot dead.
Ten minutes later, police responded to another shooting only blocks away at 31st and Tasker streets, where a woman and a man were shot. The man died, police say.
One of the suspects at the 31st and Tasker shootings opened fire on police and fled on foot; officers fired at him. The man was shot but it is still unclear if he was wounded by the officers or in the previous shooting, police say.
The surviving woman and the suspect were brought to Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. The woman was in critical condition.
“The motivation for a lot the shootings is nonsense…petty reasons…especially for someone getting shot or killed," Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small told USA LOCAL NEWS.
A total of nine people were shot in Philadelphia Wednesday. Three of them are dead.
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