Philadelphia, Oct 3 (AP) Philadelphia police officers have shot and killed a man suspected in a quadruple shooting few hours earlier that left three people dead, authorities said.

Shortly before 5 am on Monday, officers were called to a home in the Lawncrest section of northeast Philadelphia. They found a 43-year-old woman in the rear of the property who had been shot in the eye, a police statement said. She was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in critical but stable condition.

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Three other people were found dead inside the home with gunshot wounds to the head. They were later identified as 63-year-old Denise Snead-Doram, 61-year-old Gregory Doram, and 42-year-old Nina O'Brien.

Three hours later, in the East Mount Airy section of northwest Philadelphia, officers tried to pull over a vehicle that had been reported fleeing the shooting location, according to the police department's interim commissioner, John Stanford.

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A man inside, said to be a relative of the victims, was believed to be responsible for the shootings although a motive wasn't immediately known, Stanford said.

The man, later identified as 41-year-old Jahad Snead, fired at least one round at police, and officers returned fire, Stanford said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital a little more than an hour later, police said. One officer had minor injuries to a hand from broken glass. (AP)

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