2 Lower West Side shootings that left 3 dead may be connected, Ald. Sigcho-Lopez says

A man was found shot multiple times in the 2200 block of South Bell Avenue. A short time later, a man and a woman in a vehicle were shot dead on West 21st Street. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

In just 45 minutes on Monday afternoon, a man was found shot to death on the Lower West Side and two others gunned down in separate attacks that the local alderperson said were potentially linked to an escalating gang war.

Local Ald. Byron Sigcho-Lopez (25th) told the Sun-Times that a preliminary police investigation revealed “there may be a connection” between the double homicide and the earlier killing.