2 dead in Bronzeville shooting

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Police investigate a double homicide Thursday afternoon in the Bronzeville neighborhood. | provided by Chicago police

Two men were shot to death Thursday afternoon in the Bronzeville neighborhood on the South Side, police said.

Shortly before 1 p.m., someone fired multiple shots at a gray Dodge Avenger in the 5000 block of South Indiana, according to Chicago police. The driver was shot in the chest while the front-seat passenger was shot in the face.

Marcus M. Clark and Wilbert Morris, both 25, were pronounced dead at the scene according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Clark lived in Bronzeville and Morris lived in the South Shore neighborhood, the medical examiner’s office said.

A third person who was inside the car was not injured and was being questioned by detectives as a witness, police said.

Area Central detectives were investigating.

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