Man shot to death in car in North Philadelphia

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Thursday, November 2, 2017
Man shot and killed in car in North Philadelphia
Man shot and killed in car in North Philadelphia. Tamala Edwards reports during Action News at 5:30 a.m. on November 2, 2017.

NORTH PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Police say a man sitting in his car was ambushed and killed in North Philadelphia.

It happened at 1:30 a.m. Thursday on Lippincott Street near 16th Street.

Police arrived to find the victim sitting unresponsive in a car.

He had been shot twice in the chest. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene.

Witnesses told police they saw a man wearing a tan hooded sweatshirt fleeing on North Chadwick Street after the gunfire erupted.

No arrests have been made.

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