Two of the people found fatally shot inside a vacant Auburn Gresham apartment earlier this week, along with a third shooting victim who survived, were teenagers, according to authorities.
Chicago police found all three victims at a building near 82nd Street and Marshfield Avenue early Wednesday.
Killed were Tamrion West, 17, of the Chicago Lawn neighborhood, and Davajae Christopher, 16, of the Auburn Gresham neighborhood, according to authorities. The Cook County medical examiner’s office had not officially identified West as of Thursday.
Teenage boy among 2 fatally wounded in triple shooting in Auburn Gresham, police said
Autopsies performed Thursday confirmed that both victims died from multiple gunshot wounds and were ruled a homicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.
Gresham District (6th) officers responding to the call of a shooting about 8 a.m. Wednesday found one of the victims with a gunshot wound to the head on a rear porch, according to a police report. Officers followed a trail of blood into the building and found the two other victims, one a 21-year-old man with two gunshot wounds to his right shoulder.
The survivor told police that three unknown males entered the apartment and “shot the whole house up,” without providing further details, the report stated.
Police noted that the scene of the shooting had several vacant apartments and the victims were there illegally when they were shot. Police did not say what they believe the motive was.
No arrests had been made as Calumet Area detectives continued their investigation.
