Glenwood police said Thursday two village residents died in a murder-suicide Tuesday.
Police were called to the home in the 600 block of Holbrook Road for a report of two gunshot victims, police said in a news release.
A man was pronounced dead at the scene while the woman was taken to a hospital where she later died.
They were identified as Kash Wakefield, 37, and Charlotte Love, 23, by police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Wakefield was pronounced dead at the home on Holbrook at 9:49 p.m. Tuesday and his death was from a gunshot wound to the head, which was ruled a suicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.
Love died at 4:08 a.m. Wednesday at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, according to the office. She suffered multiple gunshot wounds and her death was ruled a homicide, the office determine following an autopsy.
Police said Wakefield and Love “were in a dating relationship” and that officers had been called to the home twice before for matters “which were of a civil nature regarding occupancy of the property.”
Police said that a handgun was recovered at the home.
