Crime & Safety
Body With Gunshot To Head Found In Schuylkill River Thursday
A body pulled form the river was found to have a gunshot wound to the head and Philadelphia Police are treating it as a homicide.
PHILADELPHIA – Philadelphia Police are investigating a homicide after a dead body with a gunshot wound to the head was recovered from the Schuylkill River Thursday morning.
According to police, the body was found at about 10:53 a.m. in the river at Walnut Street and Schuylkill Avenue in Center City.
Police said the body was that of a white male in his 50s and was suffering form a gunshot wound to the forehead.
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The man was pronounced dead at 10:55 a.m., police said.
Police did not provide further information but Patch will update the story as more details are made available.
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