A man was in custody after two people were fatally shot in their New City neighborhood home on the South Side early Friday.
About 2 a.m., officers responded to the home in the 1800 block of West 54th Street and found a man, 28, and woman, 25, with gunshot wounds, Chicago police said.
The man had been shot in his thigh and chest, and the woman had been shot in her body and head, police said. Both were taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where they died.
A 63-year-old man at the scene told officers he had been “in an altercation” with the man and woman, whom he knew, police said.
The woman allegedly pulled out a handgun, prompting the older man to do the same and open fire, police said.
The man was taken into custody for questioning.
