By SIMONE ALICEA
Chicago Sun-Times Wire
Police investigate a hostage situation that turned into a murder suicide when a man shot a woman and then killed himself Friday in Chicago Lawn. | Network Video Productions
Taylor Flowers died four days after she was shot during a hostage situation Friday in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood in which her killer then took his own life.
Officers responded to a domestic incident at 2:23 p.m. in the 3000 block of West 60th Street, according to Chicago Police. A man with a gun had barricaded himself inside with a woman and a baby girl, and SWAT was called to the scene, police said.
Taylor Flowers | photo provided
Officers managed to get into the residence at 9:33 p.m. and found the man dead with a gunshot wound that appeared to be self-inflicted, police said. The Cook County medical examiner’s office identified him as 26-year-old Darnell Williams, who lived in the home.
An autopsy Saturday found Williams died from a gunshot wound to the head, and his death was ruled a suicide, the medical examiner’s office said.
The woman, identified as the 23-year-old Flowers, was taken in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to police and the medical examiner’s office.
Flowers, of the 1500 block of South Wabash, died at Christ at 4:33 p.m. Tuesday, according to the medical examiner’s office. Her death was ruled a homicide.
The infant was taken to Holy Cross Hospital in good condition.