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A husband and wife were shot and killed at point-blank range in West Philadelphia, police said

Andrew Bullock and Nicole Lee-Bullock were shot and killed feet away from their home early Friday morning, police said.

Crime scene officers at the site of a double homicide on the 6100 block of Locust Street in West Philadelphia Friday morning.
Crime scene officers at the site of a double homicide on the 6100 block of Locust Street in West Philadelphia Friday morning.Read moreAlejandro A. Alvarez / Staff Photographer

A husband and wife were shot and killed early Friday morning just steps from their West Philadelphia home, police said.

Around 2:45 a.m. Friday on the 6100 block of Locust Street, police found a 47-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman with multiple gunshot wounds. Both victims were pronounced dead at the scene.

Police identified the victims Friday night as Andrew Bullock and Nicole Lee-Bullock.

The woman was shot once in the back of the head, and the man was shot once in the face, police said.

More than a dozen shots were fired, police said, 15 of them at point-blank range.

There were 18 shell casings found at the scene, Chief Inspector Scott Small told reporters.

The couple was killed just a few feet from their home, police said.

Although a motive for the crime was unclear, police believed that at least one of the victims was targeted, said Deputy Commissioner Frank Vanore. The couple were coming home from a lounge where they both worked when they were shot, he said.

No arrests have been made. A handgun still in its holster that had been in the woman’s purse was recovered at the scene, police said.

— Staff writer Robert Moran contributed to this article.