Police seek witnesses in man's slaying in Mantua
Authorities were looking for the gunman who fatally shot a Mantua man early yesterday morning on the 3900 block of Aspen Street, police said. The homicide was the fourth in Philadelphia since Friday.
Authorities were looking for the gunman who fatally shot a Mantua man early yesterday morning on the 3900 block of Aspen Street, police said. The homicide was the fourth in Philadelphia since Friday.
Theodore Jenkins, 36, who lived on the 3900 block of Reno Street, a few blocks north of Aspen, was shot twice in the back. He was pronounced dead at the scene at 2:10 a.m., police said.
Homicide detectives are looking for witnesses and trying to identify a motive and possible suspects. Anyone with information is asked to call homicide detectives at 215-686-3334.
Early Saturday morning, a teenager and a man were killed outside a North Philadelphia nightclub. On Sunday night, a man was arrested in the fatal stabbing of his brother earlier in the evening. - Barbara Boyer
