The first shooting was reported shortly before 1 a.m. Saturday and continued into the morning hours.
The Labor Day weekend got off to a violent start with 10 people shot, three fatally, within the first seven hours of Saturday morning, according to police.
About 2 1/2 hours later, just after 3:30 a.m., two men were killed at 52nd Street and Woodland Avenue in Kingsessing. Police said one, believed to be 20 to 30 years old, was shot once in the back of the head and was pronounced dead by medics at the scene. A 39-year-old man was shot multiple times throughout the body and was pronounced dead just before 4 a.m. at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, police said.
At 4:56 a.m., a 41-year-old man was shot once in the left leg on the 4500 block of North 12th Street in Logan. Police said they took him to Einstein Medical Center in stable condition.
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