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Two men were fatally shot in a drive-by Friday night in the West Side Austin neighborhood, police said.
About 8 p.m., Jamal Thomas, 18, and Jermale Richardson, 20, were standing by a parked car in the 5500 block of West Congress Parkway when a grey sedan pulled up and someone inside fired shots, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office. The sedan drove away west after the shooting.
Thomas, who lived in the same block as the shooting, was struck in the head and taken to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 8:21 p.m., authorities said.
Richardson, of the 1100 block of South Albany, suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was taken to Stroger Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 8:42 p.m., authorities said.
Area North detectives were conducting a homicide investigation.