Philadelphia Daily News | By Morgan Zalot
About an hour after a man and a teen were shot at a playground in North Philadelphia, a man was shot to death a little more than a mile away Thursday night, police said.
Cops said a 29-year-old man was shot in the back of the head and the chest on Hagert Street near 27th at 11:14 p.m. He was rushed to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 11:34 p.m.
Police said blood, a beer can in a black plastic bag and one bullet fragment marked the scene on Hagert Street. They remained at the scene investigating around midnight.
The man was the sixth person shot in Philadelphia in about two hours Thursday night.
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