Police identify man slain inside Eastwick home

An argument led a man to fatally shoot a 48-year-old man inside his Eastwick home early Friday evening, police said on Tuesday.

Gerardo Astacio-Leon was found by police just before 6 p.m. Friday inside his house on Theodore Street near 71st suffering from a gunshot wound to his chest, police said. Astacio-Leon was pronounced dead at 6:10 p.m. at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Police said the investigation into Astacio-Leon's murder revealed that an argument had led to the fatal shooting, which police initially believed may have happened during a home-invasion. Raheem Jones, 32, of Tabor Road near 5th Street in Olney, has been charged with murder and related offenses in Astacio-Leon's killing, poilce said.

It's unclear what the relationship between the two men was, and police did not say what they were arguing over when the spat escalated to gunfire.