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Meek Mill’s Cousin Killed in Philly

He was declared dead by medics at the scene.

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Earlier in the day, police were called to a Northeast Philadelphia home where they found a man and woman dead from stab wounds. On the 12000 block of Elmore Road near Woodhaven, Philadelphia police found the bodies of a man and a woman in what was believed to be a murder-suicide.

Meek was on probation relating to drug and gun charges from 2008.

Both men died of gunshot wounds, according to NBC Philadelphia.

Later in Kensington, on the 2900 block of North Howard Street, a 33-year-old man was shot several times near the front door of his house around 5:30 p.m. According to the report, Philadelphia’s homicide rate is now up 11 percent from 2015 with 203 reported homicides so far in 2016. Police said that victim was hospitalized in stable condition and officers arrested the suspected shooter. No arrests were reported, and the man was in stable condition.

Colon was 21 years old and was killed outside a take-out restaurant at around 10 p.m. ET. Meek Mill took to Instagram to share his thoughts on his cousin passing.

“Watching my family die to these Philly streets”. My mission is to save my family from these streets and change the mindframe of all my lil cousins growing up in it! “#RIPLO”, Mill wrote in an Instagram post about the killing.

The other victim, 27, was transferred to Jefferson Hospital after suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his legs.

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Singleton, who lived on the block, was taken by police to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.

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