Weekend roundup: Three shootings, one fatal

IN SEPARATE incidents in the city this weekend, a man was killed following a chivalrous deed, another was shot after stepping outside a bachelor party and a gunman became a victim of violence himself when he was beaten hours after he shot someone, according to police.

A 17-year-old boy who had just walked his girlfriend home and was on the way back to his house was shot about 3:45 a.m. yesterday in East Germantown, police said.

The teen, Dwayne Johnson, was shot multiple times on Spencer Street near 21st, the block in which he lived, according to police.

He was taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center in critical condition and was pronounced dead at 8:45 a.m.

Police had made no immediate arrests.

About 1:30 a.m. yesterday, a 27-year-old man attending a bachelor party at Sabel's Showbar, on Ford Road near Cranston, in Wynnefield Heights, walked outside to take a phone call and was approached by a man with a gun, police said.

The gunman, who wore an orange bandanna on his face, told the man to walk with him, possibly to get him to a more secluded area so he could rob him, police said.

Instead, the man ran and the assailant shot him once in the back, according to police.

The victim was found between two parked cars and rushed to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was listed yesterday in critical but stable condition, police said.

The shooter remained on the loose.

About 11:44 p.m. Friday, a 34-year-old man was standing on Croskey Street near Lippincott, in North Philadelphia, and leaning into the passenger's side of his car, when Marchello Bradley, 24, shot him twice in the shoulder for unknown reasons, police said.

Bradley, of 22nd Street near Westmoreland, fled on foot and the victim was taken to Temple University Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.

Using information from witnesses, police searched for Bradley. About 1:05 a.m., cops were called to Germantown Avenue near Luzerne Street, in Tioga-Nicetown, for a man found beaten on the roadway and realized that the victim - Bradley - matched the description of the shooter in the other case, police said.

Bradley, bleeding from his head, was taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center. His condition was not released yesterday, and police said that they weren't able to interview him because the hospital had inserted a tube down his throat.

Cops did, however, charge him with aggravated assault, firearms violations and related crimes for the earlier shooting.

Police said that they did not know if the beating was in retaliation for the shooting.

Anyone with information on any of these cases is urged to call the police tip line at 215-686-TIPS.