Police investigate shooting that killed man in city's Spring Garden section

Saturday, August 11, 2018
SPRING GARDEN (WPVI) -- Philadelphia police are investigating a shooting that left a man dead overnight.

Police say the incident occurred along the 1700 block of Fairmount Avenue in the city's Spring Garden section just after midnight.
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Authorities arrived to the scene to find a 34-year-old man shot several times in the neck, chest and arms.

He was rushed to Temple University Hospital where he died a short time later.

No arrests have been made.

No word on what may have sparked the shooting.
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