(STMW) — Two people shot to death Sunday morning in the North Side Uptown neighborhood are the first two reported homicides of 2017 in Chicago, after a bloody 2016 saw 780 homicides in the city.
At 4:25 a.m., two men were shot in the 4600 block of North Broadway, according to Chicago Police.
A 38-year-old man was shot in the chest and right leg and a man, between the ages of 35 and 40, was shot multiple times in the right side, police said. They were both taken to Illinois Masonic Hospital, where they were pronounced dead.
The Cook County medical examiner’s office could not immediately provide information on the fatalities, which are believed to be the first homicides of 2017.
Around the same time, a man was shot Sunday morning in the West Garfield Park neighborhood on the West Side.
At 5:53 a.m., officers responded to a call of a person down in the 4600 block of West Monroe, according to Chicago Police. They found a 39-year-old man lying on the ground with multiple gunshot wounds.
He was pronounced dead at the scene. The Cook County medical examiner’s office did not immediately provide information on the death.
Last year ended with 780 homicides in the city, according to Sun-Times records.
(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire copy; Chicago Sun-Times 2017. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
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