Weekend slaying victims identified

Police have released the names of two slaying victims from the weekend and reported the death of another man four days after he was beaten a baseball bat.

The man killed when gunfire ripped through a 2003 Chevy Suburban in North Philadelphia early Sunday was identified as Hector Plaza, 27, of the 2800 block of North Reese Street in the Fairhill section.

A second man wounded in the arm in the shooting on the 500 block of West Cambria Street made his way to Episcopal Hospital in another car and was transferred to Temple University Hospital in stable condition.

No arrests have been reported.

A man fatally wounded in a shooting early Saturday in a bar on the 2600 block of Sergeant Street in North Philadelphia was identified as Christopher Keeys, who lived nearby on West Huntingdon Street.

Keeys, 26, was shot multiple times in the back and side during a fight in the bar that also left a 43-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the thigh and a 32-year-old man stabbed in the leg, police said.

Keeys died at 1:26 a.m. at Temple University Hospital.

Again, no arrests have been reported.

In another case, police said a man beaten with a baseball bat on Feb. 20 in his home on the 5700 block of Vine Street in West Philadelphia has died.

Howard Dickson, 44, succumbed to his injuries at 11:54 p.m. Thursday at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.

Police are looking for his killer.