Maurice M. Ross was killed and another man was critically wounded in a shooting Wednesday night in the Fernwood neighborhood.
One man was killed and another was critically wounded Wednesday night in the Fernwood neighborhood on the Far South Side, police said. | Network Video Productions
Officers responding at 10:35 p.m. to a call of shots fired in the 300 block of West 106th Street found a 43-year-old man inside a home with a gunshot wound to the neck, according to Chicago Police.
The officers then discovered the 24-year-old Ross lying on the ground in the alley, suffering from gunshot wounds to the head and back, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Ross, who lived a block away in the 300 block of West 105th Street, was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:35 p.m., the medical examiner’s office said. An autopsy showed he died of multiple gunshot wounds.
The older man was taken to Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn in critical condition, police said.
A family member said Ross died less than 100 yards from the spot where his older brother was shot to death several years ago.
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire