A man and woman found in a
Philadelphia park fatally shot in an SUV were having sex in the back
seat and their killer sought the couple out, police said.
Homicide Capt. James Clark said
Monday that Shakoor Arline, 25, and Lisa Smith, 32, were together in the
SUV early Friday when someone opened the rear door and fired nine
times, shooting both multiple times in the head.
Maintenance workers found their
bodies around 2 p.m. Friday near Lemon Hill Mansion, a historic building
in the city’s Fairmount Park. Clark said the shootings happened between
midnight and 5 a.m.
Arline and Smith met at work at a
previous job and had been seeing each other on and off for several
years, Clark said. Both were also in relationships with other people.
“So obviously that’s where our
investigation is going to start, because somebody knew that they were in
the park at that time and obviously had an issue with that,” he said.
Clark said nothing was taken and the case was not a robbery.
“You’ve got nine shots fired,
all of them head shots to both of the victims, so it appears to be very
much a crime of passion,” Clark said.
Investigators have talked to a woman and are trying to talk to a man, but don’t consider him a person of interest at this point.
