At least three people were reported killed and five others injured in a shooting in and around Chicago.
One of the dead includes the suspected gunman, who according to the NBC’s branch in Chicago was allegedly shot and killed by the police.
The racketeering began Saturday afternoon in the town of Kenwood, where one woman was fatally shot and another seriously injured, according to local station WGN9.
A University of Chicago student was then shot dead in a nearby parking lot, the station reported.
While officers were confronting the gunman, he allegedly ran into an IHOP in Evanston, a city 12 miles north of downtown Chicago, where he took a woman hostage and shot her before shooting a exchange gunfire with police in a parking lot of a dollar store.
The shooter’s weapon was found at the scene, Evanston police tweeted; authorities did not immediately name the shooter and victims.