Police seek attackers in Olney killing
Philadelphia police are searching for two people in connection with a shooting that killed a man and wounded a woman in Olney on Monday night.
Philadelphia police are searching for two people in connection with a shooting that killed a man and wounded a woman in Olney on Monday night.
Police identified the deceased victim as Anthony Celious, 32, of Burholme.
He was sitting on the front steps of a house on the 200 block of West Nedro Avenue around 9 p.m., speaking with a 22-year-old woman sitting just above him, police said. A man and a woman walked up to them and opened fire, police said.
Celious was hit in the stomach, and the woman was hit in a foot. Neighbors helped police place him in a squad car. He was rushed to Einstein Medical Center, but died about a half-hour later.
The woman was treated at Einstein.
No arrests had been made in the case, and a motive was not yet apparent, police said.
