James Kirksey, 36, was killed in Chester, Pennsylvania, on December 6, 1973, in a sudden, violent street shooting that also claimed the life of 39-year-old Sudie Bell Green. Kirksey was shot at about 9 p.m. in an apartment building at 3rd and Franklin Streets; Green was struck around the same time near 501 Bar at 501 East 7th Street. Both victims were pronounced dead at the scenes as bystanders looked on.

Police arrested a suspect, Howard Chambers, 27, of the 200 block of West 7th Street, within seven minutes and several blocks from the shootings. Chambers was arraigned the next morning on two homicide charges and ordered held without bail; reports noted he had been on parole earlier that year for a 1968 wounding of a cab company employee. No motive or clear connection between the two victims is provided, and the final disposition of the homicide charges is not stated.

Did anyone in Chester at the time have information about Kirksey, Green, or what led to the shootings?