A 49-year-old man who Chicago police say fatally shot himself Monday afternoon in the parking lot of the Bridgeport police station was suspected in the shooting death of another man earlier in the day, according to law enforcement sources.
The 49-year-old shot himself in the head inside a parked vehicle in a handicapped spot in the visitors lot of the Deering District station, 3120 S. Halsted St., one of the sources said.
Around 2:45 p.m., he had threatened suicide, before eventually shooting and killing himself, according to police.
Little more than an hour earlier, about 1:20 p.m., a man in his 20s suffered a gunshot wound to his head in the 11800 block of South Union Avenue — about 11 miles away from where the apparent suicide eventually occurred — and was taken to Roseland Community Hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.
One of the sources said investigators suspect the younger man was fatally shot by the 49-year-old before he turned the gun on himself at the police station. Initial reports Monday indicated the two men were related, but a police spokesman on Tuesday said they were not.
They are scheduled for autopsies Tuesday at the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Police cordoned off traffic outside the police station along Halsted from 31st Street to 33rd Street.
