Five people were shot to death within six hours early Sunday, including three who were killed after an argument in a neighborhood bar, police said.
The deaths bring the number of killings in the city this year to 232, on pace to be the highest rate in a decade.
No suspects were immediately arrested in any of Sunday’s shootings.
Police said a man opened fire shortly after midnight at Abay Wheelers Bar in the Kingsessing section of the city, killing three men, ages 20, 30 and 31, and injuring a fourth.
On Sunday, a small memorial of stuffed animals, balloons and signs sat outside the corner bar.
A 23-year-old man was also killed in north Philadelphia, and an unidentified man died in the Wynnefield section of west Philadelphia in separate shootings.
