By Associated Press - Saturday, December 24, 2016

PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Authorities say an elderly woman was shot and killed in a corner grocery store in south Philadelphia.

Police said the shooting happened shortly before 9 a.m. Saturday inside Marie’s Grocery Store.

Police said a man dressed all in black and wearing a hood shot the 81-year-old woman multiple times.



She was taken to Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, where she died shortly after 9 a.m. Saturday.

No arrests were immediately reported.

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