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Lakeview Shooting Kills Yuriy Naroditskiy, 84, Wounds Elderly Woman

By Joe Ward | August 25, 2016 5:32pm | Updated on August 27, 2016 11:46am
  An 84-year-old Lakeview man was shot and killed, and an elderly woman critically wounded, in an apparent murder-suicide attempt, according to police.
An 84-year-old Lakeview man was shot and killed, and an elderly woman critically wounded, in an apparent murder-suicide attempt, according to police.
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CHICAGO — An 84-year-old Lakeview man was shot and killed and an elderly woman critically wounded in an apparent murder-suicide attempt Thursday, police said.

At 9:18 a.m., police went to the 600 block of West Diversey Parkway and found Yuriy M. Naroditskiy with a gunshot wound in his head, said Officer Nicole Trainor, a Chicago Police spokeswoman.

Naroditskiy was pronounced dead on the scene.

An elderly woman was also found at the scene with a gunshot wound to her head, Tannehill said. She was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition, Tannehill said.

Naroditskiy was identified by the Cook County Medical Examiner's office Thursday afternoon. An autopsy showed he died of a gunshot wound in his head in a suicide.

Police are investigating the shooting as an attempted murder-suicide.

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