Phila. police investigating three fatal shootings

By Allison Steele, Inquirer Staff Writer
Posted: March 30, 2011

Police are searching for a man and a woman who fled the scene of a North Philadelphia robbery and fatal shooting early Tuesday.

The victim, a 35-year-old man, was shot in the chest around 1:40 a.m. outside JD's Lounge at Fifth Street and Olney Avenue in the Olney section, police said. They did not identify him.

No arrests have been made. A man and woman were seen leaving after the shooting, police said, but no descriptions have been released.

The victim was pronounced dead at 2:02 a.m. at Albert Einstein Medical Center, police said.

In another fatal shooting, investigators are trying to establish a motive in the slaying of a man found shot Monday night in the driver's seat of a Toyota Camry in Fern Rock.

Officers responding about 10 p.m. to a call about a person with a gun found Andre Henry, 30, shot multiple times in the 1400 block of West Chew Avenue, police said.

Henry, of the 5700 block of Ogontz Avenue, died at 10:28 p.m. at Einstein, police said.

Police also reported that the victim of another recent shooting in a car has died. Perry Braxton, 40, was found about 12:45 a.m. Sunday with gunshot wounds in the 5900 block of Elmwood Avenue in Southwest Philadelphia, police said.

Braxton, of the 1500 block of South 31st Street in Grays Ferry, died about 19 hours later at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Police said they had not established a motive.

Contact staff writer Allison Steele at 215-854-2641 or asteele@phillynews.com.

Inquirer staff writer Joseph A. Gambardello contributed to this article.

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