The mean streets of Philadelphia were brutally busy again over the weekend.
Seven homicides were reported from Friday to Sunday, and this morning police released the names of half-dozen victims. The seventh, the only woman, stabbed Friday allegedly by a boyfriend, was known earlier.
The homicides bring the year's official count to 247, roughly equal to last year's.
Here are the cases, starting with the most recent.
Shooting in East Mount Airy. En route to a hospital early Sunday morning, medics noticed a man lying outside in the 6600 block of Ross Street. He was pronounced dead at the scene, from a gunshot wound to the head, at 3:43 a.m. He was Ryan Taylor, 22, of the 400 block of West Mentor Street in Feltonville. Police knew of no motive as of this morning.
Stabbing in North Philadelphia. An argument was suspected in the stabbing death of a 51-year-old man near Temple University. He was found about 10:23 p.m. Saturday in the 1700 block of West Cecil B. Moore Avenue, and pronounced dead 25 minutes later at Temple University Hospital, according to police. He was Loren Manning of 1700 block of North 16th Street, just a block or two from where the incident happened.
Triple shooting in Olney. Three men with gunshot wounds early Saturday morning were taken to Einstein Medical Center, where one victim, shot in the chest, was pronounced dead at 4:01 a.m. The shooting took place, apparently during a robbery, about 3:48 a.m. in the 5000 block of North Fifth Street. The 43-year-old who died, Bernabe Montes, lived on the block. A 40-year-old, shot in abdomen, was in critical condition. A third man, also 40, was treated for a wounded right hand and released.
Shooting in West Philadelphia. After hearing gunshots, police officers found a 44-year-old man with a head wound in the 5700 block of Baltimore Avenue. He was pronounced dead about 4 a.m. Saturday at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He was Adonis Purdy of the 700 block of South 57th Street, about a half-dozen blocks from the scene of the possible robbery attempt.
Quadruple shooting in North Philadelphia. An argument turned deadly shortly after 7 p.m. Friday in the 1700 block of West Dauphin Street, according to police. Shot in the abdomen was William Stubbs, 30, of the 5800 block of Pemberton Street in West Philadelphia. He was pronounced dead at 11:23 p.m. at Temple University Hospital. Two other men, in their early 20s, were in stable condition there. A 27-year-old man, wounded in the thigh, was treated and released.
Strangulation in Kensington. In this case, the victim's identity was previously reported as Maribel Rivera, 41, of the 5100 block of Whitaker Avenue in the city's Crescentville section. She was found unconscious in a bedroom in the 1900 block of Tioga Street, where her boyfriend, Richard Lebron, 42, who lives there, was arrested on murder and related charges. She was pronounced dead at 11:40 a.m. at Aria-Frankford Hospital.
Shooting in North Philadelphia. A 58-year-old man was pronounced dead of gunshot wounds to the neck and groin in the 3000 block of West Clearfield Street at 6:40 a.m. Friday. Clifford Price, 58, lived in the 3100 block of North Pennock Street, a couple of blocks away.