Philadelphia police are investigating a double shooting in West Philadelphia Monday night that killed one man.
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One man was killed and another injured by gunfire in West Philadelphia late Monday night.
Shots rang out in the area of South 44th and Market streets about 10:48 p.m., police said.
Responding officers found a 21-year-old man with a gunshot wound to his right side on the unit block of South 44th Street. The man was pronounced dead at the scene at 10:56 p.m., according to police.
Police were not identifying the 21-year-old man Tuesday morning, pending notification of next of kin.
A 30-year-old man was shot in his arm in the fatal gunfire, police said. He was in stable condition at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
