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Police Quickly Nab Germantown Murder Suspect

By Dan Wing

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Fast acting police officers arrest a man just minutes after a shooting in Germantown left a man dead Wednesday night.

The officers were on patrol when they heard gunshots in the area of 29th and Germantown Avenue a little after 10 p.m.

Chief Inspector Scott Small tells CBS 3 Eyewitness News that shortly after they found a crime scene.

"They saw a male laying in the highway bleeding heavily, and they saw another male running west on Cambria Street with a gun in his hand."

Police identify the victim as 46-year-old Jorge Lopez.

Small says the officers apprehended that 23-year-old after a two block chase.

The 46-year-old victim had been shot twice, once in the arm and once in the chest.

He was taken to Temple Hospital where he was pronounced dead around 10:30 p.m.

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