Police this morning released the names of two men killed in separate shootings in West Philadelphia on Wednesday.
Maurice Thomas, 28, was shot once in the torso while resisting a robbery about 9:40 p.m. on the 1200 block of South Millick Street.
The victim, who lives on the block, was pronounced dead at the Hospital of the University Pennsylvania at 10:27 p.m.
Police were looking for the gunman.
Stephen Casey, 23, was shot nine times and killed during a gun battle between the occupants of two cars on Cobbs Creek Parkway near Catharine Street around 3 p.m.
