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Police identify 5 killed in Southwest Philadelphia shooting

The victims ages range from 15 to 59 years old.

Frazier Street and Kingsessing Avenue is where Philadelphia Officers heard multiple gunshots where they located a suspect and pursued on foot to Springfield Avenue in Philadelphia, Pa., on Tuesday, July 4, 2023.
Frazier Street and Kingsessing Avenue is where Philadelphia Officers heard multiple gunshots where they located a suspect and pursued on foot to Springfield Avenue in Philadelphia, Pa., on Tuesday, July 4, 2023.Read moreTyger Williams / Staff Photographer
    by Rodrigo Torrejón
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Police identified the five people killed Monday in the mass shooting in Southwest Philadelphia.

The five people killed ranged in age from 15 to 59 years old, and most of them lived in the area of the shooting.

A 2-year-old boy and a 13-year-old boy, both of whom were not identified, suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the legs and were listed in stable condition, police said. Two other people were injured from glass during the shooting, an unidentified 33-year-old woman and a 2-year-old boy.

They were also in stable condition, police said.

The victims killed in the mass shooting are:

  1. Da’Juan Brown, 15, whose residence was unknown.

  2. Lashyd Merritt, 21, of the 5500 block of Greenway Avenue.

  3. Ralph Moralis, 59, of the 1700 block of South 56th Street.

  4. Dymir Stanton, 29, of the 1700 block of South Frazier Street.

  5. Joseph Wamah, Jr., 31, of the 1600 block of South 56th Street.