Police investigate as three people were shot and killed and seven others injured in separate shootings across Philadelphia.
Also in the northern part of the city in the early hours of the new year, police said two men arrived at Temple Hospital after gunshots rang out near the intersection of 8th and Cambria streets.
Authorities are trying to pinpoint when the second triple shooting of the new year happened after three men showed up to two different hospitals with gunshot wounds. Police said two injured men in their early 20s walked into St. Christopher's Hospital, one of the victims was placed in critical condition. A man was shot and killed while two women were injured after a shooting on East Luray Street.
The bloody start to 2022 comes immediately after Philadelphia endured one of its deadliest years ever recorded. According to the Philadelphia Police Department, there were 559 homicides in the city last year. Editor's note: This article originally said 3 people died in overnight shootings, but was corrected to two homicides following new information from the Philadelphia Police Department.
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