2 Men, One A State Corrections Officer, Fatally Shot In Goose Island

By Stephen Gossett in News on Oct 27, 2016 8:13PM

Two men were killed in shootings in Goose Island that occurred approximately five hours apart and within a few hundred feet of each other, Wednesday night and early Thursday morning, police said. Both victims were found fatally shot in the head and seated in the driver’s side of vehicles, according to police. The Tribune reports that one of the victims was an Illinois corrections officer, and detectives think the shootings are linked.

Officers responded to a call at 7:11 p.m. on Wednesday night in the 900 block of North Racine Avenue and found a 33-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the head, a police spokesperson told Chicagoist. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Roughly five hours later, at around 12:20 a.m. on Thursday, officers responded to another call in the same vicinity, in the 1000 block North Willard Court., and found a 35-year-old man fatally shot in the head, also inside a car.

Officers were spotted searching a car underneath a viaduct near Racine and Augusta after the first shooting, and a sedan in “an isolated area” nearby following the second fatal shooting, according to the Tribune.

The two shootings happened in areas just west of the North Branch Chicago River, where it runs along Goose Island, and due east of Noble Square.