Two Brothers Found Shot To Death In Car On The South Side

By Samantha Abernethy in News on Aug 6, 2013 8:40PM

Two brothers were found shot to death in a car less than a block from their mother's home in the West Pullman neighborhood. LeAndre Cooper, 38, and Demetrius Cooper, 35, were found dead in the front seat of a Dodge Charger around 3:40 a.m. Tuesday.

A neighbor said the two men "bought used cars at auction and then resold them." Police say neither of the men had any known gang affiliations.

The mother of the two men, Bobbie Cooper, 59, has had two strokes in five years, and she is bound to a wheelchair. She told the Sun-Times, “They were my everything.”

One of the men's sons approached the crime scene. The Tribune writes:

At one point, someone who appeared to be in his late teens walked briskly to the tape, lifting it up and walking down the street toward the scene. Several people with him convinced him to turn around, explaining to the police officers who approached that he was one of the men's sons.

Dressed in a white T-shirt, the son then lay on a front lawn two houses south on Michigan Avenue. As friends surrounded and tried to console him, he broke down.

A neighbor said he feared retaliatory violence, saying, "From now on, we'd better be locked in our house because it's going to be war out here."

In total, three men were killed and nine people were wounded between Monday afternoon and Tuesday morning. Jonathan Murray, 25, was found dead, having been shot multiple times, around 4:20 p.m. Monday in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood. Also, a 33-year-old St. Louis man died Monday after being shot in his relatives' yard over the weekend in the Archer Heights neighborhood.