Man steals bike from SEPTA bus before shooting a man dead in Southwest Philadelphia, police say
The 19-year-old victim died shortly after being taken to the hospital.
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A 19-year-old man was arrested and will be charged with homicide in the fatal shooting of another man in Southwest Philadelphia on Wednesday night, according to police.
The shooting occurred at 66th Street and Dicks Avenue just after 10 p.m.
The suspect, whom police did not immediately identify, had just stolen a bicycle from a SEPTA bus at a nearby intersection, police said, when he encountered the man he later shot, also a 19-year-old whom police did not identify.
Police responded to the scene to find the victim unresponsive with a gunshot wound to the throat. He was taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and pronounced dead around 10:20 p.m.
The shooter fled after robbing a second person of an electric bicycle, police said.
Investigators tracked the shooter to 84th Street and Bartram Avenue, where they took him into custody and recovered a firearm, police said.