2 fatally shot in Avalon Park home

The men were inside a home in the 8600 block of South Constance Avenue when someone fired shots about 10:35 p.m.

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Two men were killed in a shooting late Friday inside an Avalon Park neighborhood home.

The men were at the home in the 8600 block of South Constance Avenue when someone fired shots about 10:35 p.m., Chicago police said.

Witnesses told officers they heard a loud noise followed by gunshots, police said.

Sylvester Gilmore and Ryan Washington, 23 and 30, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and were taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where they were pronounced dead, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.

No arrests were made.

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