UPDATE: Partially Clothed Stabbed Man, Two Bodies Found Along Kelly Drive
[Update 9:34 a.m.] Action News has a gallery of photos:
PHOTOS: Man stabbed, bodies found in Schuylkill River #6abc – http://t.co/8zgz5g6Qh1 | pic.twitter.com/Wkz1zijOj1
— Action News on 6abc (@6abc) August 27, 2014
Philly.com’s Emily Babay has been live-tweeting from the scene. She reports:
Two men were stabbed, bound and their bodies sunk with a makeshift anchor in the Schuylkill River, while a third man found half-dressed said he had been abducted in a bizarre series of events off Kelly Drive early this morning.
She reports that the 20-year-old survivor told police he was kidnapped at 62nd Street and Woodland Avenue.
All the police on the scene here are now gathering along river banks. pic.twitter.com/mk5QODIsvW
— Emily Babay (@emilybabay) August 27, 2014
Crews pulling body from Schuylkill. Two found in river after reported abduction. Another man survived. pic.twitter.com/zVvrX5ijdn
— Emily Babay (@emilybabay) August 27, 2014
Two bodies found in Schuylkill appx 50-75 feet apart, in about 5-10 feet of water. Both pronounced dead, one removed from river.
— Emily Babay (@emilybabay) August 27, 2014
(To correct some prelim info, bodies not pulled from river earlier. Were found. Both bound, thrown in after reported abduction)
— Emily Babay (@emilybabay) August 27, 2014
Second body pulled from Schuylkill: pic.twitter.com/Bx0DVoMYIb
— Emily Babay (@emilybabay) August 27, 2014
This victim's hands are bound in front. Blood on back of shirt. Ankles also appeared tied.
— Emily Babay (@emilybabay) August 27, 2014
Both victims pulled from river are male, police say. Both were stabbed.
— Emily Babay (@emilybabay) August 27, 2014
[Original]
6 ABC is reporting that police are investigating the discovery of a stabbed man and two bodies in Fairmount Park along the Schuylkill River.
It began at 4:00 a.m. Wednesday when officers found a partially clothed man on Kelly Drive who had been stabbed.
The man told them he had been abducted along with two other men then thrown into the Schuylkill River.
Police began searching the area and discovered two bodies along the banks of the river. Both of the victims had been bound.
Philadelphia Police Chief Inspector Scott Small said that the victim told investigators that five men abducted him and threw him into the back of van around 1 a.m.
“While in the back of the van he was blindfolded, he was stabbed numerous times, he was robbed of an undisclosed amount of money,” said Small. “He says that while in the back of the van he then realized that there were two other males in the back of the van… they were duct taped and they appeared to have been stabbed numerous times.”
Police have not revealed the neighborhood where the abduction occurred, NBC 10 reports, and are reviewing surveillance footage to try to find the van and the suspects.
We’ll have more as this develops.
