Five men were killed in separate Philly homicides Wednesday night and Thursday morning, police said

Five men were killed in separate homicides in Philadelphia Wednesday night and Thursday morning, according to police, including a man whose body was found ablaze in a field in Eastwick.

The crimes brought the city’s annual homicide tally to 327 victims, police statistics show, a slight increase over last year’s record-setting pace. The killings occurred in different sections of the city, some in rapid succession, and police said no one had been arrested in any of the crimes.

The violence began just before 6:50 p.m. Wednesday in Germantown, when 28-year-old Nathan Ervis was fatally shot in the head and torso on the 200 block of Zeralda Street, police said.

Ervis, who lived on the block, was taken to Temple University Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 8:04 p.m., police said.

Officers found five spent shell casings on the sidewalk and street, but Capt. John Walker said investigators were still seeking video and other evidence in an attempt to determine what happened.

About three hours later, at 9:43 p.m., two killings happened nearly simultaneously in different parts of the city, police said.

In East Frankford, a 25-year-old man was shot in the head while driving a Nissan sedan in the area of Josephine and Gillingham Streets. The Nissan crashed into a utility pole at a high rate of speed, said Inspector D.F. Pace, and the victim — whom police did not identify — was declared dead at the scene.

He was still wearing his seat belt after the collision, Pace said, and the tires of the car were still spinning and eventually disintegrated.

A witness told police a man had stumbled out of the sedan after the crash and fled in an unknown direction, Pace said. A spent shell casing was found inside the vehicle and a gun was found under the car, he added.

Walker said: “We believe [the crime] was contained to that car,” though he said detectives had not yet identified a suspect.

Meanwhile, in Kensington at 9:43 p.m., police said, two men were shot on the 3100 block of Rorer Street. One of the men, a 26-year-old whom police did not identify, was shot in the shoulder. He was taken to Temple and pronounced dead at 9:50 p.m.

The second victim, a 24-year-old, was in stable condition with a gunshot wound to the leg, said Chief Inspector Scott Small.

Police found 16 spent shell casings from two separate-caliber guns.

Thursday morning, at 6:48, two men — ages 17 and 23 — were shot on the 5300 block of Parrish Street in West Philadelphia, police said. The 23-year-old, whom police did not identify, was shot several times and taken to Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead shortly after 7:04 a.m.

The teen was hospitalized in stable condition with a gunshot wound to the neck, police said.

Around the same time in Eastwick, police said, the body of a man believed to be about 30 or 40 years old was found ablaze in a field on the 3100 block of South 81st Street.

Someone driving by had called authorities to report a brush fire, Walker said, and firefighters discovered the man’s body as they extinguished the blaze. Police said the fire was deemed an arson and the killing a homicide.

Walker said investigators were awaiting the results of an autopsy to learn more about the case, including whether the victim had sustained any other injuries before his body was set on fire.