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Ashley Harrison, 26, Killed In Murder-Suicide In Austin

By Kelly Bauer | September 5, 2017 7:57am | Updated on September 5, 2017 11:47am

CHICAGO — A 26-year-old woman was killed and a 34-year-old man possibly took his own life in Austin on Monday, police said.

At 6:36 p.m., the two were in the 4900 block of West Washington Boulevard when they were shot during a "domestic incident," police said. They were taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where they were pronounced dead.

The woman was identified as Ashley Shanta-Nicole Harrison, of the 700 block of South Kenneth Avenue, in Cook County Medical Examiner's Office records. Harrison was pronounced dead at 7 p.m. and an autopsy showed she died from multiple gunshot wounds in a homicide.

The man was identified as Brian Jones, of the same block where he died, in Medical Examiner's Office records. Jones was pronounced dead at 7:10 p.m. and an autopsy showed he died from a gunshot wound in his head in a homicide.

No one was in custody.