We just left a funeral,’ cousin laments after Antwon Brooks and Javil Nunn fatally shot on porch in Brainerd

By ASHLEE REZIN
Chicago Sun-Times Wire

Mourners gather in the 9000 block of South Marshfield after two men were shot to death on a porch early Sunday. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

Mourners gather in the 9000 block of South Marshfield after two men were shot to death on a porch early Sunday. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times


Antwon Brooks and Javil D. Nunn were shot to death early Sunday on a porch in the Brainerd neighborhood, just hours after they attended the funeral for another victim of Chicago gun violence.

Officers responded at 1:13 a.m. to a call of shots fired in the 9000 block of South Marshfield and found the men, ages 33 and 42, unresponsive, according to Chicago Police.

The older man, identified as Brooks, was pronounced dead at the scene at 1:45 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The younger man, identified as Nunn, was also pronounced dead at the scene. Autopsies showed both men died of multiple gunshot wounds and their deaths were ruled homicides.
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