A dice game in the Lawndale neighborhood on the Southwest Side turned deadly for 19-year-old Jerome Phelps and 16-year-old Caprice McCollum Jr., when two suspects started shooting Sunday night.
The victims were playing dice in the 1800 block of South Springfield about 9:45 p.m. when two male suspects approached and fired shots, police said.
Phelps, who was shot multiple times, was taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:26 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 1800 block of South Ridgeway.
McCollum was shot in the head and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died at 4:08 p.m. Monday, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 1800 block of South Avers.
Jerome Phelps, 19, was shot multiple times and taken to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 10:26 p.m., according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 1800 block of South Ridgeway.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire