Promising Chicago College Student Dead From Feared Murder-Suicide
Authorities in Chicago are investigating a possible connection between the deaths of a man and a woman at an apartment building in Edgewater Beach this week.
According to NBC Chicago, police found a 23-year-old woman on Monday (May 2) with a gunshot wound to her head at the Belle Shore apartment building. Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office say the woman was pronounced dead at the scene and her death was ruled a homicide.
A day later, authorities found a man, 26-year-old Jovan Cabrera, dead in an apartment on the eighth floor of the same building while conducting a search warrant.
According to the Chicago Tribune, the woman has been identified as Brittany Kinlow. A person who walked into the laundry room called 911 when they found her unresponsive.
Kinlow was set to graduate May 9 from the University of Illinois at Chicago with a bachelor’s degree in music business, according to Sherri McGinnis Gonzalez, a UIC spokesperson.
A police source says Cabrera shot Kinlow in the head and then killed himself. Before officers found Cabrera, an alert had been issued by police to be on the lookout for Cabrera, who was considered armed and dangerous.
On Tuesday, an autopsy determined Kinlow died of a gunshot wound to the head.
“She was real pleasant, a real nice young lady,” Wendell Murray, a resident of the building who had seen the pair around before but didn’t know them personally, said, according to the Tribune. “I didn’t even speak to him, just passed him going in and out.”
Details surrounding what happened are still being investigated by authorities.
