Two men, including a tow truck driver, are dead following a Wednesday morning shootout in the Roseland neighborhood on the city’s Far South Side, according to Chicago police.
Police said they responded to reports of a person shot in the 11300 block of South Lowe Avenue around 2:30 a.m.
They found a 59-year-old man, who was operating a tow truck, with one gunshot wound to his head. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. A 45-year-old man, who was shot several times, was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn where he was pronounced dead. Authorities didn’t immediately release the identities of the men.
Preliminary information indicated that there was an exchange of gunfire between the two men, but police offered no other details as detectives conducted their investigation.
