2 killed in Lawndale drive-by shooting

Two men, 29 and 34, were struck by someone in a passing red vehicle about 12:15 a.m. in the 1900 block of South Saint Louis Avenue, Chicago police said.

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Two men were killed in a drive-by shooting Saturday morning in Lawndale on the West Side.

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Two people were shot and killed early Saturday morning in a drive-by shooting in Lawndale on the West Side.

Two men, 29 and 34, were struck by someone in a passing red vehicle about 12:15 a.m. in the 1900 block of South Saint Louis Avenue, Chicago police said.

Artimas Torry, 29, was struck in the eye and hand and was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he died, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

The older man, identified as Charles Jackson Jr., was struck once in his head and pronounced dead at the scene, police said.

No one was in custody.

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