A pregnant woman was among two people fatally shot Wednesday night in the Chatham neighborhood on the South Side, according to Chicago Police.
About 8:15 p.m., officers responded to a shooting in the 7600 block of South Champlain, and found Malik K. Bingham, 20, at the wheel of a parked car, and a woman in her 20s lying on a sidewalk nearby, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
Bingham, of the Morgan Park neighborhood, was shot in the neck, while and the woman, who was pregnant, suffered gunshot wounds to the abdomen and side, police said. It was not known how far along she was in her pregnancy. She had not been identified as of Thursday afternoon.
Both were taken to Stroger Hospital, where they were pronounced dead, authorities said.
A police source said the shooting was considered gang-related. No one was in custody.
