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Man, 75, allegedly confessed to fatally shooting two women in Washington Heights: police report

Chicago Sun-Times: Chicago news, politics, sports and more March 9, 2026
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Charges were pending Monday for a suspect, 75, who allegedly confessed to police that he fatally shot his girlfriend and another woman he lived in the city's Far South Side Washington Park neighborhood.

A motive remained unknown for the late Saturday attack.

Officers said they responded to a 911 call from the alleged shooter about 11 p.m. and when they knocked on the door of the home in the 10400 block of South Peoria Street the 75-year-old suspect "spontaneously" told police that he shot the women and the gun was "upstairs," according to a Chicago police report.

The officers found 68-year-old Phyllis Goolsby unresponsive with gunshot wounds to the chest on the second floor, according to the report, which said Goolsby and the alleged shooter were in a romantic relationship with no prior domestic incidents.

Officers said they found another victim, a still-unidentified 71-year-old woman, unresponsive in the first floor bedroom with gunshot wounds to her back and torso, the report said.

Several shell casings lie around the bodies of the women, who lived with the alleged shooter and were dead on the scene.

The 75-year-old was taken into custody and a handgun was found and secured on the second floor of the home, the report said.

Police said his charges were pending Monday.

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