Philadelphia has set a new record for the number of homicides in a single year following another round of killings on Saturday, and with another full month left to go, 2021 is now the deadliest year in the city’s history. With the latest shootings on Saturday, the number of homicide victims stands at 503. The last time the number crossed 500 was in 1990, during the crack cocaine epidemic. The Philadelphia Police Department has been keeping homicide records since at least 1960, and this year’s rate has now surpassed all previous years. There were 499 murders in 2020. According to police statistics, at this time last year the number of homicide victims stood at 450, in 2019 it was 325, and in 2018 it was 307. On Saturday, a 51-year-old man was shot at 3 p.m. at 10th and Brown streets in North Philadelphia. He was taken to the hospital …