Philadelphia Inquirer
A 20-year-old man is fighting for his life after he was shot in Olney Wednesday afternoon about a block from where a man and a woman were shot and killed on a porch last Monday.
Police said the man was shot once in the lower back on 3rd Street near Spencer just after 3:30 p.m. He was taken to Albert Einstein Medical Center in a private vehicle and listed in critical condition.
Last Monday, Rodney Ramseur and his girlfriend, Latia Jones, both 21, were shot and killed as they sat on Ramseur’s porch at 3rd and Sparks streets, about a block north of where Tuesday afternoon’s shooting took place. Police said Ramseur may have been targeted in retaliation for testifying in a murder case.
Cops were investigating what motivated Tuesday afternoon’s shooting.
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