St. Paul's annual record for homicides has grown by three this week to 38 after two men were shot and another man died from an assault many days earlier, police said Wednesday.
The city's one-year record had been 34, set in 1992 and matched last year.
No arrests have been announced in any of these latest killings.
A man was shot about 10:15 p.m. Tuesday in a house in the 500 block of Blair Avenue, police said.
Officers arrived to "a chaotic scene," where they found a man with a gunshot wound, a statement from police said. He was taken by emergency responders to Regions Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to police.
Police late Wednesday afternoon identified the man as Jarrell R. Kirk, 31, of St. Paul.
A day earlier, a man was shot in the chest shortly before 10 p.m. in the 900 block of Rice Street, police said.
He was taken to Regions and died there several hours later, according to police. He was identified Wednesday afternoon as Kenneth L. Davis Jr., 44. Police did not provide a city of residence for Davis.
