Police investigating possible murder and attempted suicide in Chestnut Hill
A man apparently shot a woman and then himself around 9 p.m. on the unit block of Bethlehem Pike, police said.
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Police were investigating a possible murder and attempted suicide Wednesday night in the city’s Chestnut Hill section, police said.
Around 9 p.m., police responded to the unit block of Bethlehem Pike near the Germantown Avenue shopping corridor and found the woman and man both with gunshot wounds. The woman had no signs of life and was pronounced dead at 9:29 p.m. by medics at the scene. Police transported the man to Chestnut Hill Hospital, where his condition was not available.
Police found two vehicles at the scene that were registered to the same address in Montgomery County.
No other details were immediately available.
Police also were investigating an earlier homicide that occurred shortly after 8 p.m. in North Philadelphia.
An unidentified man was found outside on the 1400 block of Cambridge Street with six gunshot wounds. He was taken by police to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:16 p.m.
Police recovered one firearm as evidence but no arrests were reported.