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ID in SW Phila. homicide

Police this morning identified a 29-year-old man who was shot to death in Southwest Philadelphia yesterday.

Police this morning identified a 29-year-old man who was shot to death in Southwest Philadelphia yesterday.

Sokoni Meachum was found lying on the sidewalk with several gunshot wounds to the chest in the 2500 block of South 66th Street shortly before 6 p.m., police said.

Meachum, of the 2500 block of South Shields Street, was transported to the Hospital at the University of Pennsylvania and pronounced dead at 6:23 p.m.

No arrests were reported.