A man and woman were found shot to death inside an SUV that apparently sat unnoticed in a Bridgeport intersection for up to 20 minutes before police discovered their bodies Friday evening.
Shortly after 7 p.m., officers on patrol stopped to investigate a Ford Explorer that was stopped in the middle of 31st Street and Princeton Avenue, outside Franco’s Ristorante, according to Chicago police. Inside the vehicle, officers found a 41-year-old man in the driver’s seat and a 39-year-old woman in the passenger seat, both dead from gunshot wounds to their heads. A firearm was resting on the man’s lap, according to an officer at the scene.
No 911 calls reporting gunfire were made before the victims were discovered, and witnesses inside Franco’s told police the SUV had been sitting in the intersection for about 20 minutes before officers arrived.
CPD said detectives are treating the case as a homicide. However, the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office scheduled autopsies for Saturday to determine, among other things, whether any of the wounds were self-inflicted…