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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. -- A surge of violence Thursday night leaves police investigating two deadly shootings.

Around 9:00 pm police were called to the Park Ridge Apartments near Academy and Maizeland.

Police say they found 23 year old Timothy Roath in the hallway suffering from a gunshot wound.

He was taken to the hospital where he later died.

Then six hours later police were called to the Cedar Creek Apartments near Chelton and Fountain.

Police say they found a black male in his late 20’s dead outside of one of the buildings.

FOX21 News spent the day talking to people at both complexes. One woman told FOX21 News she watched her friend die in the parking lot.

"He wasn't that type of person. He always stayed cool with everybody and for somebody to do that to him it's, It's ridiculous," said Kimberly Robinson, a witness to the shooting and friend of the victim.

Robinson says she was at the 7-11 across the street and heard the shots that killed her friend Thursday night at the Cedar Creek Apartments.

"I saw a car pull in here and park right here in front of these doors, and I heard like five bullets go off and I saw my homie drop," said Robinson.

Police aren't releasing the victim’s name and the coroner hasn't ruled his death a homicide.

But Robinson believes her friend was murdered.

"By the time I got over here he was done. He was already dead," said Robinson.

Robinson’s friend wasn't the only victim of violence Thursday night. Hours earlier Timothy Roath was shot at the Park Ridge Apartments on Radiant Drive.

Police say both victims appear to have known their killers.

"We do not believe that this was a random shooting. We do believe that the victim was the intended target of the suspect," said Sgt. Steve Noblitt, with the Colorado Springs Police Department.

Police also say it doesn't appear that the two shootings are connected.

"At this point in time we believe they're completely separate and it's a pure coincidence," said Sgt. Noblitt.

Roath's death was ruled a homicide and it's the city's fourteenth this year.

Police aren't releasing information about suspects in either case, but Robinson says she already knows who killed her friend.

"We all do, we all do, we all do" said Robinson.

Anyone with information about either of these incidents is asked to call the police at 444-7000 or Crime Stoppers at 634-STOP.