Two men killed, woman injured in North Lawndale shooting

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Two men were killed and a woman was injured in a shooting in the North Lawndale neighborhood Friday afternoon on the West Side.

About 5 p.m., the three were outside in the 4200 block of West Grenshaw when a gunman walked up and opened fire, police said.

Both men, ages 29 and 30, suffered gunshot wounds to the head, authorities said.

The older man, Justin M. Banks of Hebron, Ind., was found unresponsive on the ground and pronounced dead at the scene, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

The younger man, identified as Joseph Wayne Luttien of Hobart, Ind., was discovered in the driver’s seat of a bullet-riddled pickup and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 5:34 p.m., according to the medical examiner’s office.

The 54-year-old woman was shot in the left leg and taken to Saint Anthony Hospital, where her condition stabilized, police said.

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