On the night of January 3, 2017, two brothers were shot on the West Side in the Homan Square neighborhood of Chicago. Simmieon McGruder, 23, suffered gunshot wounds to the head and left arm and was pronounced dead at Mount Sinai Hospital at 11:52 p.m. His older brother, Simmie McGruder, was also critically wounded and died the next morning at 5:13 a.m. The shooting occurred on the 3200 block of West Lexington Street shortly before midnight.

Police reported no motive and did not publicly identify suspects or say how many people fired the shots. Initial accounts did not establish whether the brothers had been targeted or whether the attack followed an earlier confrontation. Family and friends remembered the brothers as friendly and well liked; social media tributes reflected shock and grief.

Does anyone have information about what happened on West Lexington Street that night or knew the McGruder brothers?