When officers went to inspect a South Philadelphia property, the man answered the door holding a rifle, police said.

Officers confronted the man on the 1600 block of Moore Street after he was seen walking with a rifle. The man is hospitalized in critical condition; no officers were injured.

A shooting investigation is drawing a large police presence in the Point Breeze section of South Philadelphia on Wednesday.

A man and a woman watching TV in separate apartments in North Philadelphia were both wounded in a drive-by shooting on Monday night, police said.

A woman is dead after being run down by a rented U-Haul truck in Kensington Tuesday evening. Two people are now in custody in what Philadelphia Police are calling a preventable death. PHILADELPHIA - The Philadelphia Police Department is investigating a deadly crash that occurred in Kensington Tuesday.

A woman walking down the street in Philadelphia’s Kensington section was fatally struck by a U-Haul truck after the driver “lost control” and jumped a curb on Tuesday afternoon, Chief Inspector Scott Small said.