Two people are dead and another is wounded in separate shootings just minutes apart on the city's North Side Wednesday night.
Police said around 10 p.m., two brothers, a man, later identified by the Medical Examiner's Office as Benjamin O'Neal, 20, and a boy, identified as Jonathan O'Neal, 17, were standing in an alley, in the 4800 block of North Ashland Avenue, when a car drove up and an unknown suspect inside started shooting.
Both were taken to Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center with multiple gunshot wounds and were pronounced dead.A neighbor we spoke to, who didn't want to show his face, said he heard between eight and ten gunshots. "We just heard screaming and we went out to check what was going on, most of the neighbors out here. And we tried to do our best to resuscitate them and to just help," he said. The teen was walking on the sidewalk, in the 4300 block of North Ashland Avenue, when someone driving by fired shots, according to police.Police haven't confirmed with the shootings were connected - only that they are still investigating.
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