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Man, 23, shot five times in Kingsessing

The man was in critical condition Sunday at Penn Presbyterian Hospital, police said.

The man was shot at in the street on the 5300 block of Pentridge Street.
The man was shot at in the street on the 5300 block of Pentridge Street.Read moreTNS

A 23-year-old man was critically wounded in a shooting in the Kingsessing neighborhood in Southwest Philadelphia early Sunday morning.

Police said that the man was shot in the street on the 5300 block of Pentridge Street at 3:18 a.m. Sunday. He was hit five times: once in the chest, twice in the lower back and twice in the right hip.

The man, whose name was not disclosed, was in critical condition Sunday at Penn Presbyterian Hospital, police said. No arrests had been made.