Police investigated overnight a body found bound and burned by the roadside in the Northeast while two men were also shot, one of them nine times, in Kensington.
The burned body was found on the 5500 block of Newtown Road in Northeast Philadelphia early Tuesday morning.
Police say firefighters were responding to a trash fire when they saw a person engulfed in the flames. The victim's legs and arms were bound with electrical cords and attached to a car jack.
The victim has not been identified.
And two men are hospitalized following the double shooting in Kensington.
Police say a 24-year-old and a 44-year-old were shot near Dauphin and North Howard streets around midnight.
One of the men was shot nine times, while the other was shot in the foot.
The 44-year-old is stable at Temple University Hospital. The 24-year-old is in extremely critical condition.
Police said the men did not know each other, and the 24-year-old was the apparent target of the shooting. No arrests have been made.
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