City's Murder Count Hits 400 For 2006

The number of murders in the City of Philadelphia has now reached 400 this year after three people died overnight in separate shootings.

That's the highest number of murders in nearly a decade.

The first took place in the Mayfair section of the city. Police said a pizza delivery driver was shot and killed as he went up to a door on Stevens Street.

Authorities were searching for at least two gunmen.

Meanwhile, in the Poplar section of the city detectives were searching for a dark-colored vehicle with tinted windows after a man in a sport utility vehicle was shot in the neck and killed Saturday morning near 13th and Parrish.

The unidentified victim died at the hospital.

And, at around 3 a.m., half-a-dozen police cars rushed to the intersection of 39th and Market streets in West Philadelphia.

There, officers found a man suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. He died about 15 minutes later.

At least 20 gunshots were fired at that scene, which remained closed off Sunday morning.