Overnight shootings leave 2 dead, 1 critical in N.J., Pa.

    Three overnight incidents have left two men dead in Camden and one man critically injured in Philadelphia.

     

    Police officers in Camden, New Jersey are investigating two shootings that occurred just hours apart.

    According to ABC6, a 42-year old man was found suffering from multiple gunshot wounds around 9 p.m. Saturday night. He was taken to Cooper Hospital where he was pronounced dead.

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    At around 1 a.m., police say that a car pulled up to the Virtua Hospital emergency room parking lot, dropped a man’s body off, and pulled away. The unidentified man was pronounced dead of gunshot wounds.

    In Philadelphia, shots rang out in Olney at around 1 a.m., leaving one man in critical condition. NBC10 reports that witnesses say an argument began during a baby shower that was going on inside the Nedro Street home. The incident left the man who was reportedly in his 20s in critical condition.

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