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Friday, July 29, 2011

1 dead, 1 wounded, Police attacked in Chatham

A gunman killed a man and seriously wounded a woman in the Chatham neighborhood this afternoon, then exchanged fire with officers before fleeing.
The shooting occurred around 3:30 p.m. near 82nd Street and Cottage Grove Avenue. Three police officers were talking outside a bank near 83rd and Cottage when they saw a man shoot a woman, then open fire on a man in a car.
Police responded to the area and came upon the victims, and saw two attackers fleeing the scene.
One gunman then shot at the officers and they returned fire. The gunman fled in a car and was involved in a crash at 82nd Street and Drexel Avenue.
Shots were fired by police at some point, and the two attackers fled the car near 82nd and Drexel and fled on foot.
Authorities said two people were taken into custody near 86th Street and Ingeside Avenue.
A man in his 20s was pronounced dead on arrival at the Hospital. A woman in her late 20s was taken to the hospital in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the neck.
UPDATE: Kenneth Taylor, 24, of the 8300 bock of South Maryland Avenue in Chicago, and Moneet Baker, 22, of the 8200 block of South Drexel Avenue in Chicago, were the two shooting victims.

UPDATE: Chicago police have charged a Far South Side man in the shooting deaths of two people in the Chatham neighborhood Friday.
David A. Russell, 22, of the 9500 block of South Calumet Avenue in Chicago in the Rosemoor neighborhood, was charged with two counts of first degree murder and two counts of attempted first degree murder in the killings
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