S. Phila. slaying victims indentified
Police have identified the victims of two fatal shootings in South Philadelphia's Point Breeze neighborhood yesterday.
Police have identified the victims of two fatal shootings in South Philadelphia's Point Breeze neighborhood yesterday.
They say Darryl A. Pray, 18, of the 500 block of 33rd Street in Upper Darby, was shot multiple times in the chest, neck, and arm on the 1500 block of Reed Street shortly befoire 2 p.m. A medic unit took him to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 2:06 p.m.
About an hour later and just blocks away, three males were driving near 17th and Tasker Streets when they heard gunshots and realized one of them, Tyrell Sack, 17, had been shot in the back, police said.
They drove to the firehouse at 20th and Federal Streets, and from there the wounded teenager was taken by medics to Jefferson, police said. Sack, of the 1400 block of S. Hicks Street, was was pronounced dead at 4:24 p.m.
Police have not announced any arrests in either case.
