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Police investigating robbery-homicide near Health Sciences

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Temple police sent out an advisory to students and faculty informing them of a robbery homicide that occurred around 2 a.m. Wednesday morning near the Health Sciences Campus.

The incident occurred on the 3200 block of North 15th Street between Allegheny and Westmoreland Avenues. The victim was not a Temple student or employee, according to the advisory.

The email, sent at 1:56 p.m., stated that campus police “were just recently made aware of the exact location of the incident.”

At the time of the advisory, no arrests had been made and police are looking for a black male, between 5 feet 5 inches and 5 feet 7 inches tall, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and riding a bike.

Anyone with information related to the crime can contact the Philadelphia Police Department at 215-686-3334.

Woman killed near Health Sciences campus

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A young North Philadelphia resident was shot and killed only blocks away from Temple’s Health Sciences campus around 3:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, a Philadelphia Police Department spokesperson confirmed.

Shari Haris, 23, was on the 3300 block of North 13th Street when she was shot in the head. The PPD believe the motive of the action may have been robbery.

When police arrived, they saw the female lying in the street. She was pronounced dead on the scene at 3:36 a.m.

Haris was a resident of the 3300 block of North Park Street, just west of the Olney subway station and almost 3 miles north of where she was killed.

There are currently no leads in the case.