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A man and woman died in an apparent murder-suicide early Wednesday that closed the outbound Chicago Skyway for over five hours.
They were in a vehicle heading east on the Skyway near the Toll Plaza at 88th Street at 4:11 a.m. when 49-year-old Lisa Fischer got out of the vehicle, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Christopher M. Pena, 30, then got out of the still-moving vehicle and fired shots at Fischer, striking her multiple times, authorities said. The vehicle then crashed into the concrete wall dividing the inbound and outbound Skyway just west of the plaza.
A Chicago Police officer responding to the shooting saw Pena running back toward the vehicle, authorities said said. The officer told him to stop, and Pena pulled out handgun and shot himself in the head.
Fischer, of west suburban Broadview, and Pena, of the West Side Austin neighborhood, were both pronounced dead at the scene, authorities said.
The eastbound lanes of the Skyway were closed for over five hours, but had reopened as of 10 a.m., police said.