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Chicago After Dark: Elderly couple killed in fire; man found dead | Feb. 6, 2018

By Jordan Owen

Welcome to our morning article #afterdark, a roundup of crime (and more) happenings from around Chicago overnight.

An elderly couple died in a fire Tuesday morning in the West Garfield Park neighborhood. The police Bomb and Arson Unit is investigating.

A man and a woman, both 90 years old, died in a fire Tuesday morning in the West Garfield Park neighborhood, authorities said. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

A 37-year-old man was found shot to death inside an apartment Tuesday morning in the South Side Englewood neighborhood.

A 37-year-old man was found shot to death Tuesday morning inside an apartment in the South Side Englewood neighborhood, police said. | Tyler LaRiviere/Sun-Times

Also Tuesday morning, a man was shot in the left ankle in the West Side Austin neighborhood.
On Monday night, a man was shot in the Lithuanian Plaza neighborhood on the Southwest Side.

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