PHILADELPHIA - Police are investigating a fatal stabbing in South Philadelphia, authorities say. According to officials, 1st District officers responded to the 2300 block of South 20th Street around 12:27 a.m.
responding to a report of a stabbing in a private residence. When police and medics arrived on scene and entered the property, they found an unresponsive 64-year-old woman laying on her back in the hallway on the second floor, according to Chief Inspector Scott Small.
Authorities say she was bleeding from a large laceration in her neck. "She was clearly stabbed several times in her neck," Small said.
Medics pronounced the woman dead in the residence at 12:51 a.m., officials say. Police are investigating the fatal stabbing of a woman in South Philadelphia.