Cousins Gunned Down on the West Side
Police have not made any arrests and have no motive for the shooting.
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Two cousins were shot on Polk street.
A gunman shot down two cousins on the West Side of Chicago last night in what appears to be a random act of violence.
Percy Day, 17, and Tyrone Williams, 19, both college students were gunned down outside a two-flat on the 3700 block of West Polk St. Saturday at 9:15 p.m, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Neither man survived.
Family members who witnessed the shooting have no idea why it happened.
"We saw him walking up the block, then he stopped a few houses down, turned and walked away," said Sharnia Goodman, who was Day's girlfriend. "About ten minutes later he came back, the shooting started and everybody tried to run."
Williams, a student the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, was home for the weekend to get an outfit to wear to a homecoming dance at the school, Lanre Sanya, who is Percy's uncle and Tyrone's cousin told the Tribune.
Day attended DeVry University, where he was in a program to get his high school diploma and an associate's degree.
Police have not made any arrests and have no motive for the shooting.
Posted Saturday, Sep 26, 2009 - 2:26 PM CST
