At the end of last month, a 28-year-old restaurant employee was fatally injured in an attack in northeast Philadelphia, and his family is mourning his death.
Police respond to 3 shootings less than an hour during violent night across Philadelphia
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PHILADELPHIA - Officers in Philadelphia say six people were injured in violent incidents overnight, including three different shootings that happened in less than an hour early Thursday morning.
The spate of gunfire began on the 1800 block of Diamond Street just after midnight. Police say a 17-year-old boy was shot in the left forearm and driven to Temple University Hospital in stable condition.
Minutes later in Brewerytown, police say someone shot a 33-year-old man six times in the back and legs. Officers drove the unnamed victim from North Newkirk Street to Temple Hospital where he was placed in critical condition.
Amy Goldberg, MD, the Interim Dean of the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, had just finished a 24-hour shift in her role as trauma surgeon at Temple