Driver found fatally shot in chest after crash on Roosevelt Boulevard
PHILADELPHIA - A man has died after Philadelphia police say he was found shot in the chest following a crash on Roosevelt Boulevard.
Shortly before 1 p.m, Wednesday, police responded to reports of a shooting in the area of West Roosevelt Boulevard and Old York Road.
Officers arrived on the scene and found a man in his late 30s suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. He was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead a short time later.
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Police say the victim was driving a silver Honda CR-V and had struck the median and another vehicle while driving north on Roosevelt Boulevard.
According to police, two bullet holes were found in the rear of the Honda CR-V.
There were also white scrape marks from where the Honda crashed along the median of Roosevelt Blvd and the front end was smashed when it rear ended the other vehicle.
"Turns out he was shot through his back and the bullet came out his chest and we know he was in the vehicle when he was shot cause we found a bullet hole through the seat, then that bullet went through the seat, struck him in the back and came out his chest," said Chief Inspector Scott Small, PPD.
Police shut down the northbound lanes of Route 1 before Old York Road for four hours as they searched for fired bullet cartridge casings and tried to find out where the shooting happened. The road was reopened just before 5 p.m without detectives finding any evidence on the road or witnesses to the shooting.
"We just don't know where exactly the shooter or shooters were when the shots were fired," said Chief Inspector Small.
Detectives tell FOX 29 that the Honda is registered to a Northeast Philadelphia woman.
By the start of FOX 29’s 10 O’Clock news on Wednesday, police were trying to reach the woman in hopes to identify the man shot and killed while driving her Honda.
Detectives hope someone may have been on the busy highway at the time and may have seen drivers jostling on the roadway just before 1 p.m. Hoping someone may even have heard gunfire and may remember any vehicle now seeing what the end result was earlier with the silver Honda.
"We don't know the motive for the shooting," said Small. "Possibly road rage due to the fact he was in the center lanes, possibly the Blvd extension headed northbound towards Roosevelt Blvd…Hopefully, when somebody realizes this was a homicide, maybe they saw something. Maybe they heard some gunshots."
No weapons were recovered, and no arrests have been made.
This is an ongoing investigation.