Rickey Carroll, 35, was shot and killed at 9:09 p.m. yesterday in a house on the 3300 block of Amber Street in Port Richmond, a Philadelphia Police Department spokeswoman said.
Carroll, who lived on that same block, was found with a gunshot wound to his chest and transported to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 9:41 p.m., police said.
The shooting was nine minutes after another murder on the street on the 600 block of Perth Place, just west of Northern Liberties.
Khaleef Johnson, 23, of the 2000 block of N. 24th Street, was shot multiple times in the back, police said. He was pronounced dead at 9:18 p.m. at Hahnemann University Hospital.
Police are investigating but said there was no known suspect or motive in either murder.
