PHILADELPHIA - Violence continues to plague Philadelphia. Over the weekend, seven people were left dead and more than a dozen injured in shootings across the city.
It was the scene repeated 14 times this Mother’s Day weekend, shooting after shooting. When the gunfire finally ended, seven people were dead and18 wounded.
Police say several of the weekend murders were drug related and one was a robbery. Homicide investigators believe several might be connected to earlier shootings.MORE: 1 dead, 2 injured after triple shooting in North Philadelphia, police say"A lot of retaliation, one murder leads to another murder that leads to another murder.