KANSAS CITY, Kan. -- For the second time in three months, someone has been killed in the same Kansas City, Kan., house.

Phillip A. Martin, 30, had moved into the house at North 24th Street and Haskell Avenue a month after the first homicide there, but Kansas City, Kan., police said the two homicides were not related.

Angie Martin, the victim's sister, said she didn't know who would kill her brother.

"This was a senseless crime, and whoever did this, it's wrong. It's wrong," she said.

At least one woman who lived near the house where the homicides happened said she wanted the landlord to be more particular about who he let rent the house.

She didn't want to be identified but said, "At least screen your people before you put them in there. That's all. We have to come out of our houses. I don't want to come out here and take a stray bullet for anybody."

Confronted with the neighbor's frustration, landlord David Switzer said, "Of course I don't want to rent to people who have problems. The woman who I checked out had a good employment verification, and I had no reason to think that there'd be any problems."

Angie Martin said her brother was not a trouble maker.

"He had no enemies out here. He didn't bother anybody," Angie Martin said. "It was just a senseless crime."

Kansas City, Kan., police urged anyone with any information to call the Crime Stoppers TIPS Hot Line at 816-474-TIPS (8477), text TIP452 plus a message to CRIMES (274637) or submit a tip online at kccrimestoppers.com.