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"path": "/crime/2026/03/09/man-75-allegedly-confessed-to-fatally-shooting-two-women-in-washington-heights-police-report",
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"textContent": "<p>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.</p><p>A motive remained unknown for the late Saturday attack. </p><p>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 <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.suntimeswire.com/crime/2026/03/08/two-women-fatally-shot-washington-heights\" >10400 block of South Peoria Street </a> the 75-year-old suspect \"spontaneously\" told police that he shot the women and the gun was \"upstairs,\" according to a Chicago police report. </p><p>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. </p><p>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.</p><p>Several shell casings lie around the bodies of the women, who lived with the alleged shooter and were dead on the scene. </p><p>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. </p><p>Police said his charges were pending Monday. <br></p>",
"title": "Man, 75, allegedly confessed to fatally shooting two women in Washington Heights: police report",
"updatedAt": "2026-03-09T17:42:54.992Z"
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