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Philly Gunman Killed First Victim Nearly Two Days Before Mass Shooting<!-- wp:html --><p>Philadelphia Police Department</p> <p>Police in Philadelphia revealed Sunday that one of the five victims they initially reported had been killed in a mass shooting that rocked the state this week was in fact killed nearly two days prior.</p> <p>Joseph Wamah, Jr. was still murdered by the suspected gunman, Kimbrady Carriker, Philadelphia police told The Daily Beast in a statement, but investigations following the mass shooting incident—where four people were shot dead in southwest Philadelphia on June 3 in a seemingly <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/philadelphia-mass-shooting-suspect-kimbrady-carriker-gave-baffling-motive">random act</a> of violence—revealed that Wamah had been murdered on June 2, approximately 44 hours beforehand. </p> <p>Wamah was the only one of the five initial victims that were gunned down inside a house.</p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/philly-gunman-killed-first-victim-nearly-two-days-before-mass-shooting">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

Philadelphia Police Department

Police in Philadelphia revealed Sunday that one of the five victims they initially reported had been killed in a mass shooting that rocked the state this week was in fact killed nearly two days prior.

Joseph Wamah, Jr. was still murdered by the suspected gunman, Kimbrady Carriker, Philadelphia police told The Daily Beast in a statement, but investigations following the mass shooting incident—where four people were shot dead in southwest Philadelphia on June 3 in a seemingly random act of violence—revealed that Wamah had been murdered on June 2, approximately 44 hours beforehand.

Wamah was the only one of the five initial victims that were gunned down inside a house.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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