Two men, including a tow truck driver, killed in shooting in Roseland, police said

According to Chicago police, two men, including a tow truck driver, are dead after a shooting on Wednesday morning in the Roseland neighborhood in the far south of the city.

Police said they responded to reports that a person had been shot in the 11300 block of South Lowe Avenue around 2:30 a.m.

They found a 59-year-old man driving a tow truck with a gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. A 45-year-old man who had been shot multiple times was taken to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, where he was pronounced dead. Authorities did not immediately release the men’s identities.

Preliminary information suggested that there had been an exchange of gunfire between the two men, but police did not release any further details during their investigation.

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