Overview
- Officers responded shortly after 4:30 p.m. Friday to a second-floor unit on the 2600 block of South 9th Street near Shunk Street.
- Police found an adult woman with a gunshot wound to the head, and medics pronounced her dead at 4:42 p.m.
- A female suspect was taken into custody, according to police.
- The Philadelphia Police Homicide Unit is investigating and has not established any relationship between the two women.
- Police reported 15 homicides citywide so far this year, fewer than half the total at the same point in 2025.