Tuesday, police said they believed the attackers in the Lorena's killings were involved in an August stick-up of a Southwest Philadelphia corner store and the shooting of a North Philadelphia store clerk earlier in the summer. The Southwest Philadelphia robbery was captured on surveillance camera, and the robbers' faces are much more visible.
Police are asking for help in identifying the men in the video, Homicide Capt. James Clark said.
"We need to find these men and get them off the streets as quickly as possible," Clark said.
There is a $50,000 reward in the killings, including Mayor Nutter's recently announced $20,000 bounty in all homicides.
Tipsters should call homicide at 215-686-3334. The video can be viewed at philly.com/jaquez.
It was about 8 p.m., just minutes before closing time on a rainy night in September, when the two gunmen burst into Lorena's.
The store owner, Porfirio Nunez, who was planning on celebrating his 50th birthday that night with his family, was toward the back of the store, with his wife, Juana, and her sister, Lina Sanchez.
One gunman, the shorter of the two, shot Porfirio Nunez in an aisle. The other gunman executed the older women as they tried to crawl for cover.
The killers emptied the cash register and the lotto register before fleeing, sparing Nunez's teenage daughters, who took cover behind the counter.
Porfirio Nunez, originally from the Dominican Republic, owned the store for 11 years, his family said. Neighbors remembered him as a kind man who kept his store clean and let customers pay later if they were short.
His family had recently joined him in the United States.
On Aug. 7, two men with guns and another serving as a lookout stuck up the Jaquez Grocery Store at 62d and Reedland Streets in Southwest Philadelphia.
