A rash of shootings across the city left at least one person dead and 10 others injured Friday night into Saturday morning.
* The violence touched off about 8:30 p.m. Friday, when a 30-year-old man was shot in his lower back while sitting on the steps of his home along the 2100 block of East Orleans Street in Kensington, police said.
The victim was taken by private vehicle to Episcopal Hospital, then transferred to Temple University Hospital and rushed into surgery.
A dark-skinned Hispanic man dressed in black and wearing a long-sleeved jacket was reportedly seen holding a long gun and firing it over a fence toward Birch Street just before the victim was shot, police said.
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