Cousins Derrick Jones and Stephen Tucker were shot to death on the block where they lived in the West Side Austin neighborhood late Friday.
Authorities investigate a double homicide outside an Austin neighborhood home late Friday. | Network Video Productions
At 10:50 p.m., the 20-year-old Tucker and 21-year-old Jones walked outside after a phone conversation inside a home in the 500 block of North Laramie, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
At least one person opened fire on them as they walked out, police said.
Jones was shot across the body and was pronounced dead at the scene at 11:19 p.m. Tucker, known to friends as Sosa Lex, died at Mount Sinai Hospital at 11:44 p.m. after suffering wounds to the head and back, authorities said.
Both lived on the block where they were killed.
Authorities investigate a double homicide outside an Austin neighborhood home late Friday. | Network Video Productions
—Chicago Sun-Times Wire