William L. Drake and Briona O. White were shot down Thursday evening in a double homicide in the Roseland neighborhood on the South Side.
About 6:55 p.m., officers responding to a call of a person shot in the 500 block of West 109th found two people outside with gunshot wounds, police said.
Drake, 20, was shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. He lived a few blocks away in the 10900 block of South Lowe.
White, 22, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she was pronounced dead at 7:43 p.m., authorities said. She lived in the 10100 block of South Carpenter. An autopsy showed she died of multiple gunshot wounds.
Police are investigating whether the shootings were gang-related.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire