UPDATE (12/17/2015): Police have identified the victim as 35-year-old Mark Marshall from the 4500 block of Kingsessing. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that the man was returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby store and was walking on the 4600 block of Kingsessing with his two dogs when he was approached by an unknown male wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and orange hat and shot multiple times. The assailant then got into the passenger seat of a silver minivan and fled.

Witnesses told police that there was an argument between the two men before the shooting. It’s not clear whether the two men knew each other.

Many people heard the gunshots and some took to social media to express their sadness for the victim and his family and friends:

@WestPhillyLocal @micly215 I was on my porch last night when the shots rang out. Sending prayers to the man’s fam.

— dionne stanfield (@dionnestanfield) December 17, 2015

(12/16/2015, 9 p.m.): A fatal shooting was reported on Wednesday evening at around 7:45 p.m. near 47th and Kingsessing. A 35-year-old man was shot multiple times, according to police. They’re searching for a silver Town & Country minivan that fled the scene. The victim was transported to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and was pronounced dead at 8:05 p.m.

38th and Aspen (Google Street View image).

Police are searching for a man who they say shot and killed a 22-year-old man inside a convenience store in West Philadelphia’s Mantua neighborhood. The shooting happened on Tuesday shortly before 8:30 a.m. at J and R Perez Grocery at 38th and Aspen.

The suspect fired four shots at the victim, according to police, then got into a car and fled. The victim was taken to the hospital where he died 20 minutes later. Police say the victim was specifically targeted. There were several people inside the store when the shooting occurred, including a small child, according to police.

6ABC Action News spoke to the victim’s family and friends who identified him as Maurice McDonald. The investigation continues.

UPDATE (9:35 p.m.): The 29-year-old woman was shot to death several weeks ago, but her body wasn’t discovered until this morning, according to police. Several people live in separate bedrooms in the boarding house, according to reports. The woman’s body was found in the first-floor living room under a mattress or blanket, and there was a foul smell in the house, according to police. Police also discovered the crime scene in one of the 3rd floor bedrooms where they believe the shooting took place. The investigation continues.

9:54 a.m.: Police are investigating a homicide on the 5100 block of Spruce Street. They say a woman’s body was found this morning, shortly before 7 a.m., inside a boarding house. Police say the woman lived in the boarding house with her boyfriend, and that she was probably killed a few days ago.

Homicide detectives are looking for clues in the death of a 60-year-old man who was discovered Monday morning inside his apartment near 42nd and Chester.

Police say Theodore Hudson III was found at about 10 a.m. by a co-worker (Philadelphia Daily News interviewed him) in his basement apartment. Blood-covered dumbells were found near his body, according to a police report. His apartment had been ransacked and the front door was closed but unlocked.

So far police don’t have any suspects or motives.

Anyone with information can call homicide detectives at (215) 686-3334 or 3335.

A 31-year-old man was shot and killed outside the Copabanana bar and restaurant at 40th and Spruce early Tuesday morning, according to police.

Police at the scene said that the shooter, who is in custody, fired at least 10 shots from a “large caliber semi-automatic handgun” to the victim’s torso and chest at about 1:30 a.m. Police said the shell casings from the weapon were found within inches of the victim’s body, indicating that he was shot at very close range.

The alleged shooter, a 26-year-old man from Southwest Philadelphia, was quickly apprehended by Penn police near 40th and Pine. Police found a weapon they believe is connected to the shooting near 40th and Pine. Police at the scene said several witnesses positively identified the 26-year-old as the shooter.

The victim was from 52nd and Locust, according to police.

Police say the shooting followed an argument that began inside the restaurant and moved outside onto the sidewalk. About 25 people were in the bar at the time of the shooting. No one else was injured.

Penn’s student paper The Daily Pennsylvanian has extensive coverage of the shooting here and GunCrisis.org was quickly on the scene with complete coverage here.

Police have arrested a New York teenager for the December shooting deaths of two men at the University Court Apartments near 46th and Chester.

Murder victim Anthony Fletcher Jr. pictured here on Election Day, 2012. Photo from his Facebook page.

Marco Joaquin, 18, was charged with two counts of murder and aggravated assault in the shooting deaths of Anthony Fletcher Jr., and Dwayne Page, according to court documents.

Fletcher’s father, Anthony “Two Guns” Fletcher Sr. was a prominent welterweight boxer in the Philly area before being convicted of murder in 1993. The son appeared to be on a different path. He was a delegate for his union, District 1199c of the Hospital and Health Care employees, at Hahnemann Hospital. His co-workers wore t-shirts with the union slogan “We Are One” to Fletcher’s December 29 funeral.

Marco Joaquin. (Police photo)

Police say Joaquin shot Fletcher once in the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Page was shot in the chest and later died at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. A third man was shot in the head and chest but survived, police said.

A police source said the shooting was drug-related.

A preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 22 at 9 a.m. in Courtroom 306 at the Criminal Justice Center (13th and Filbert).