A former Philadelphia police officer who shot and killed a motorist during a traffic stop has been acquitted of murder charges.

Mark Dial, 29, fired into Irizarry's car during a traffic stop in August 2023. The jury found him not guilty of third-degree murder.

Mark Dial was found guilty of voluntary manslaughter, but not guilty of third-degree murder, in the 2023 shooting of Eddie Irizarry.

A shooting in South Philadelphia has left one person dead and two others wounded on Thursday night, police said. The shooting happened in the area of 7th and Tree streets, which is just south of Snyder Avenue, around 9:30 p.m., according to police. The two people injured in the shooting were taken to the hospital, police said.

Philadelphia police are investigating a triple shooting in South Philadelphia that left one person dead and two others wounded Thursday night.

A suspect has been taken into custody after a shooting at a West Philadelphia grocery store Wednesday killed one teenager and injured another, the Philadelphia Police Department said. Officers responding to reports of gunfire around 2:15 p.m. inside a store on the 5400 block of Race Street found both boys suffering from gunshot wounds.

Jewish groups in the Philadelphia area are making safety changes after two workers at the Israeli Embassy were killed outside a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C.

Two staff members of the Israeli embassy in Washington were shot and killed Wednesday evening while leaving an event at a Jewish museum, and the suspect yelled, “Free, free Palestine” after he was arrested,