Philadelphia Inquirer | By Dara McBride
A violent Saturday night in Philadelphia included multiple shootings and stabbings and left one man fatally wounded in Society Hill.
Police on Sunday had yet to publicly identify a 32-year-old man whom they found shot in the chest about 3:30 a.m. in the 400 block of South Fourth Street.
The man was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He was pronounced dead at 4:31 a.m.
Officials gave no other details of the shooting.
Detectives were also sorting out an incident in Center City around 2 a.m. in which a man suffered a gunshot to the hand.
Officers observed a man firing into the air and running toward the Roar Night Club at 720 Arch St., where he escaped into the crowd.
Police responding to a call of a "person with a gun" later came upon the apparent aftermath of a confrontation among several men in a parking lot near the club.
A 26-year-old, trying to leave in a Dodge Durango truck, was shot in the right hand, police said. Another occupant of the truck, 22, was cut by broken glass.
In a third incident, a teenager who attended a party at a banquet hall at 16th Street and Hunting Park Avenue in North Philadelphia ended his night in the hospital with a gunshot wound to the back.
The 18-year-old left the party at 11:43 p.m. and walked to a gas station at Germantown and Hunting Park Avenues, where he encountered an unknown male and got into an argument.
He later told police he believed the altercation would turn physical and raised his hands to fight. As he did, the other male reached to his waistband and pulled out a gun.
The teenager fled but was hit in the back by a bullet.
In a fourth incident, a 31-year-old man was hospitalized after being stabbed in the chest in the 2400 block of East Hagert Street in Kensington around 1:20 a.m.
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