Salah Yousef Jaber Muhieddin, 35, and his younger nephew Harb Ibraihim Yousef Mohyddin were fatally shot in an apparent home invasion at their apartment above a hosiery wholesale shop on the 9100 block of South Commercial Avenue in Chicago’s South Chicago neighborhood in the pre-dawn hours of January 19, 2014. Neighbors said Salah had moved to Chicago from Egypt about six months earlier and that the two men were part of a close-knit family who had roots in the neighborhood.

Police believe intruders entered the apartment and opened fire around 4:30 a.m. Salah, gravely wounded, managed to reach a neighbor’s door and get help; officers and paramedics arrived shortly after 5 a.m. Both men were pronounced dead at the scene. Authorities recovered a handgun near the scene, and later reports confirmed both victims died of gunshot wounds, but investigators did not publicly explain whose weapon it was or how it factored into the events.

The killings were treated as a home invasion.