Man jailed in 2012 murder faces new charges in 2nd homicide

Nearly two years after 20-year-old Christopher Collick was fatally shot on an Overbrook street corner in the middle of a cold winter night, a man has been charged with murder in his killing.

Police didn't have to look far for Collick's accused shooter, 22-year-old Brandon Roberts. Court records show that he was already in jail on charges he committed another fatal shooting when detectives took a statement from him on Thursday in Collick's Jan. 2, 2013 slaying. Roberts has been charged with murder and related offenses for shooting Collick just before midnight that night, leaving the man dead on the sidewalk of several gunshot wounds to the face and head at Haddington Lane and 60th Street, police said Tuesday.

In the Dec. 4, 2012 slaying that Roberts was already jailed for, police say he shot 19-year-old Najji Abdul-Rahim several times at 58th and Master streets -- not far from where Collick was killed. Abdul-Rahim, who lived on Thompson Street near 60th, died at the hospital shortly after he was shot.

Roberts was arrested in Abdul-Rahim's murder two days after he allegedly killed Collick. Police said they do not have a motive in either slaying.