Police: Miguel Williams and Donald Carter Brunson fire shots at each other in West Pullman, and both are killed

Chicago Police investigate in the 12300 block of South Halsted, where two men were shot to death early Wednesday. | Network Video Productions

Chicago Police investigate in the 12300 block of South Halsted, where two men were shot to death early Wednesday. | Network Video Productions

Police say Miguel Williams of the Far South Side and Donald Carter Brunson of the northwest suburbs were shooting at each other early Wednesday on the West Pullman neighborhood, and both men ended up dead.

Williams, 34, was sitting in a vehicle in the 12300 block of South Halsted at 12:41 a.m. when he got into a shootout with a the 28-year-old Brunson, who was standing in the street, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Williams was found with a gunshot wound to the chest in the 700 block of East 111th Street, and pronounced dead at the scene at 1:06 a.m., authorities said. He lived in the 7700 block of South Greenwood Avenue.

The younger man, Brunson, was shot multiple times, and was pronounced dead at the scene at 12:58 a.m., according to the medical examiner’s office. He lived in the 1200 block of Diane Lane in Elk Grove Village.

Both of their deaths were ruled homicides.

—Chicago Sun-Times Wire

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