Woman, 2 men arrested in weekend slayings
Police have charged two men and a woman in connection with two of this weekend's three homicides.
Police have charged two men and a woman in connection with two of this weekend's three homicides.
Shortly after 10 p.m. Saturday, a 27-year-old man who had been shot in the head and torso was found in a vacant lot in the 5500 block of Beaumont Street in Kingsessing.
Phillippe Koukoui, who lived nearby, in the 5600 block of Litchfield Avenue, was taken to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was pronounced dead at 10:23 p.m.
The slaying apparently began as a robbery attempt by a man and a woman, police said.
Arrested were Donte Cannon, 19, of the 5400 block of Hatfield Avenue, and Shandee Stewart, 20, who lived on the street where the body was found.
The long list of charges includes murder, robbery, criminal conspiracy, theft and various firearms violations.
Police also made an arrest in a fatal stabbing that happened yesterday morning.
Police believe that at about 8:30 a.m. William Worthy, 55, was trying to get a man to leave Worthy's house in the 2800 block of Bambrey Street in North Philadelphia.
A struggle ensued and Worthy was stabbed.
He was pronounced dead at Temple University Hospital at 9:07 a.m., police said.
Jonathan Hamlette, 44, of the 500 block of Wilder Street, is charged with murder and possession of an instrument of crime.
As of this morning, no arrest had been made in the shooting death yesterday morning of Brian Crosland, 18, who was found in a vacant lot on the block where he lived in Kingsessing, the 1800 block of North Taney Street.
Police said a neighbor returning home at 4:25 a.m. yesterday found Crosland, who was pronounced dead at the scene.
