By Robert Moran
The Philadelphia Inquirer
PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police shot and killed two men during a confrontation in the Tioga section Friday evening, a police spokesman said.
The men were fighting over a handgun inside a second-floor apartment in the 1500 block of West Tioga Street shortly after 6 p.m., police spokesman Lt. Frank Vanore said.
They were ordered by two responding officers to drop the .38 caliber Smith & Wesson revolver, but they refused, Vanore said. Each uniformed officer fired one shot.
One of the men, whose age was not immediately available, was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene by medics at 6:30.
The other man was shot in the chest and died later at Temple University Hospital.
The officers, who are assigned to the 39th District, will be assigned to administrative duty until an investigation is completed, Vanore said.
The officers had been on patrol when they were approached by a woman who said the men were fighting inside an apartment and a gun was involved, Vanore said.