A 36-year-old man was charged with first-degree murder in the fatal shooting of two people he knew in the Austin neighborhood, Chicago police said.
Wendy Baptisme was arrested Thursday at 10:48 p.m. in the 800 block of North Parkside Avenue after he was identified as the person who shot 47-year-old Angela L. Johnson and 27-year-old Deangelo Johnson inside a home on the same block, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
Officers said two guns were found at the scene.
The Johnsons, were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where they were pronounced dead. Angela Johnson died of a gunshot wound to the arm, while Deangelo Johnson died of multiple gunshot wounds, a Saturday autopsy determined, said the medical examiner’s office.
Baptisme is scheduled to appear Sunday for a detention hearing at the Leighton Criminal Courthouse. He was charged with two counts of first-degree murder, police said.
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