The shooting was one of several episodes of gun and knife violence in the city over the Fourth of July weekend.

Police are investigating a mass shooting on the 1500-block of South 27th Street that left nine people injured and three dead. Officers from Philadelphia Police Department's Shooting Investigation Group say nine of the victims were taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center and three to Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

Tropical Storm Chantal is forecast to bring heavy rains as it moves inland across northeastern South Carolina on Sunday. Tropical storm warnings were issued for portions of the two Carolinas, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.

Tropical Storm Chantal made landfall early Sunday in Litchfield Beach, South Carolina, and has since weakened into a depression.

Eight men deported from the United States in May and held under guard for weeks at an American military base in the African nation of Djibouti while their legal challenge played out in court have now reached the Trump administration’s intended destination,

Courts blocked the handover after lawyers raised concerns of torture. Then the Supreme Court intervened to allow the Trump administration’s plan to move forward.

The Trump administration said it deported a group of eight men convicted of serious crimes in the United States to the conflict-ridden African country of South Sudan, following a legal saga that had kept the deportees stuck in a military base in Djibouti for weeks.