3 people shot dead overnight following apparent argument in Grand Crossing neighborhood, police say

CHICAGO — An apparent argument ended in three people shot dead early Sunday morning in the Grand Crossing neighborhood on the city’s South Side.

According to preliminary information from Chicago police, three adults were walking in the 500 block of East 76th Street at about 2:15 a.m. Sunday when they got into a verbal altercation with two unknown offenders, who then got into a silver SUV, pulled up to the three adults and began shooting in their direction.

A male and female victim were taken to an area hospital with multiple gunshots wounds and pronounced dead, police say, and a third victim was taken to another area hospital and also pronounced dead there.

According to police, the silver SUV fled eastbound after the shooting, and no other injuries have been reported. Nobody is in custody, and Area Two detectives are investigating.