Police are investigating a pair of unrelated overnight shootings that left a man and a woman hospitalized, officials said.
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In the earlier shooting, police responded to the area of 58th Street and Girard Avenue in West Philly at about 7:40 p.m. Monday after a report of a person with a gun.
On arrival they found no evidence of a shooting at that location.
However, about 20 minutes later officers learned a 20-year-old man arrived by private vehicle to a nearby hospital after he had been shot in the leg.
The man was listed in stable condition, officials said.
In a separate incident, a 37-year-old woman was hospitalized after she was shot twice in the buttocks in the 2700 block of Kensington Avenue in Kensington early Tuesday morning, police said.
This victim was taken to a nearby hospital where she was listed in stable condition.
No arrests have been made in either of the shootings and no weapons were immediately recovered by investigators.
The Philadelphia Police Department is asking anyone who may have information on either of these shootings to contact the department’s tip line at 215-686-TIPS (8477).
