A 25-year-old man was chased down and killed by gunmen early Sunday in Philadelphia’s Cobbs Creek neighborhood, while a woman who was with him was shot in the leg and survived. The shooting happened just after 1:30 a.m. near 60th and Pine streets, with the man pursued roughly a block and a half to nearly two blocks before he collapsed.
Officers responding to the scene first found the wounded woman before learning there was a second victim, according to 6abc. They then located the man on the 5900 block of Osage Avenue, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene, while the woman was taken to the hospital and listed in stable condition.
Detectives say surveillance video appears to show the pair being chased by at least two shooters as the attack unfolded, per the same report. Inspector D.F. Pace said the male victim was pursued for roughly a block and a half to nearly two blocks, with the gunmen continuing to fire until he collapsed. No arrests have been announced, and police have not identified a motive.
A Neighborhood With a Violent Recent History
This is not the first deadly shooting to hit the stretch around 60th Street in Cobbs Creek. In March, two 24-year-old men, Naasir Boyd and Paul Cobb, were killed and three others wounded when a masked gunman in a white vehicle opened fire on a crowd on the 300 block of South 60th Street near Delancey Street, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer. A 36-year-old man was shot in the stomach and critically wounded in that attack, while two other men were shot in the legs and stabilized. The Inquirer also noted that at least two other shootings had already struck the 300 block of South 60th Street in the year before that one, with both of those earlier victims surviving…