Police ID two in unrelated murders
Police have identified two victims of recent unrelated murders as Rasul Williams, 38, of Northern Liberties, and Julius Colzie, 27, of West Philly.
Police have identified two victims of recent, unrelated murders as Rasul Williams, 38, of Northern Liberties, and Julius Colzie, 27, of West Philly.
In the first case, Williams, of Brown Street near Front, was one of three people shot just after midnight yesterday on 28th Street near Grays Ferry Avenue in Grays Ferry. He had been shot multiple times and died at 1:07 a.m. at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center. A 40-year-old man was treated and released from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania for gunshot wounds to both legs, while a 45-year-old man showed up at Kennedy University Hospital in Stratford, N.J., with gunshot wounds to both legs; he was treated and released.
In the second case, police found Colzie, of 58th Street near Arch, sitting in the driver's seat of a 2006 black Nissan Altima on Ithan Street near Springfield Avenue in Kingsessing just before 2:30 a.m. Monday with a gunshot wound to his head, police said. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene at 2:35 a.m.
Police reported no suspects or motive in either case. Tipsters, call homicide detectives at (215) 686-3334 or -3335.
