Two sought in robbery, shooting of Juniata Park man
Philadelphia police are searching for two men who they say shot and killed a 20-year-old man outside a grocery store in Juniata Park Wednesday night.
Philadelphia police are searching for two men who they say shot and killed a 20-year-old man outside a grocery store in Juniata Park Wednesday night.
Police said Donald Green, 20, was found bleeding and unresponsive in the doorway of the Edwards Grocery Store on the 4200 block of Neilson Street around 8:13 p.m.
Green had been shot twice, and officers rushed him to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:51 p.m.
Police said Green and a 19-year-old friend had been approached by two men who tried to rob them. During the course of the robbery, they said, one of the men shot Green at close range.
Police said they were searching for two suspects in the shooting. They described the first as 19 to 20 years old, standing 6 feet tall, clean-shaven, with a tall, thin, build. He was wearing dark pants and a dark gray hooded sweatshirt. The second suspect was described as a man in his mid-20s, standing 5 feet six inches tall, with a stocky build. He was wearing a black pea coat, a dark skull cap and black boots, police said.
Anyone with any information on the incident is asked to call the homicide unit at 215-686-3334, or the department's anonymous tipline at 215-686-TIPS.
