Young men slain in Brewerytown, Castor

Gunshot wounds claimed the lives of two young men in the last two days, according to police.

Shortly before 3:30 this morning, police found a wounded 23-year-old man in a first-floor hallway in an abandoned property in the 1200 block of North Hollywood Street in the Brewerytown section of North Philadelphia.

He had been shot several times in the neck and the back, and was pronounced dead at 3:50 a.m., police said.

The name of the victim, who lives at another address, was being withheld this morning, pending notification of next of kin.

Police have released the name of a 20-year-old man who died early yesterday morning at Albert Einstein Medical Center.

Kristopher Barnes was found at about 6 p.m. Tuesday in the 6700 block of Oakland Street, in the Castor section of the Northeast.

Barnes, who lived in the next block north, had been shot twice in the head, police said.

He was pronounced dead at the hospital at 2:18 a.m.

In both cases, motives and suspects were undetermined.