By ANDY GRIMM, LUKE WILUSZ and JORDAN OWEN
Chicago Sun-Times
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A person of interest in a fatal shooting spree that left Jerome T. Wright, Makeesha Starks and Kiara Kinard dead in Englewood late Wednesday has been barricaded inside a building in the Fernwood neighborhood for more than five hours Thursday morning.
The killings, which police called domestic-related, happened about 11:20 p.m. Wednesday in the 1500 block of West 71st Street, according to Chicago Police. The suspected killer later took his own life following a long standoff with police in the Far South Side Fernwood neighborhood.
Wright, 50, and the two 26-year-old women, who were all related, were inside their home about 11:20 p.m. by a man they knew who started shooting, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Wright, of the 1500 block of West 74th Street; and Starks, who lived on the block where the shooting happened, were shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
Kinard, of the 7700 block of South Seeley, was shot in the back, and was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where she died at 2:37 a.m., authorities said.
Police said the shooting appears to have been domestic-related, but did not elaborate on Thursday morning.
Wright was the father of Starks, whose boyfriend is believed to be the shooter, police sources said. Several other people, including children, were in the home at the time, but were not injured.
About 4:15 a.m. Thursday, a SWAT team was called to search a building at 103rd and Union on the Far South Side.
Chicago Police later confirmed the suspect was inside the building, the perimeter has been secured and police had made contact with all the neighbors.
After an hours-long standoff, a SWAT team finally forced its way into the home, only to find the man dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, police said Thursday.