Chicago shooting: 3 shot, 2 fatally, in South Side home, police say

CHICAGO - Three people were shot, two fatally, at a home on the city’s South Side early Sunday morning.

The shooting happened in the 7200 block of South Paxton Avenue in the South Shore neighborhood, according to the Chicago Police Department.

What we know:

Officers were on patrol in the area around 2:42 a.m. when they heard gunshots fired.

They went to a home where they found three men had been shot.

Paramedics took two of the men, a 31-year-old and a 37-year-old, to the University of Chicago Medical Center with multiple gunshot wounds. They both died at the hospital.

On Sunday evening, the Cook County Medical Examiner identified the two men that died as 31-year-old Derrick Harris and 37-year-old Devantel Strickland. 

A 24-year-old man was shot in the right arm and taken to Christ Hospital in good condition.

What we don't know:

No one was in custody in connection with the shooting.

Area detectives are still investigating.