According to reports, Dewanda Dagen committed suicide after killing her lover, Noon Thurmond, in front of their children.
On Friday morning, police were hunting for answers after two people were found shot to death inside a home on the city's South Side.
According to Chicago police, the victims were discovered shortly after 2:30 a.m. inside a residence in the 6600 block of South Normal Avenue in Englewood.
According to police, officers were summoned to the area after receiving a complaint of a person shot, but when they arrived, they discovered the victims, a 38-year-old woman and a 44-year-old man, motionless inside the home.
Officers said both victims appeared to have suffered gunshot wounds to their heads and were both pronounced dead on the scene.
While on the scene, officers recovered a firearm.
Currently, it is unclear what led to the shooting and officers say no arrests have been made.
Boyfriend alleged to be having affair
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| Noon Thurmond, Englewood, Chicago area man and girlfriend, Dewanda Dagen. |
‘The truth will prevail so that no one can play on your name (facts are facts). I’m going to let the news and the detectives do their job. I’ve never been the one to go back and forth about false information and I don’t speak badly on the dead, but you didn’t deserve this.
‘We had a lunch and shopping date scheduled for Sunday and so many other things to do… I’m lost and broken praying for your Family especially your Mom, Siblings, Son, and Grandbaby.’
A further search on the web led to this comment (yet to be verified) below which may explain what led up to the tragic shooting:
Posted one user on social media: ‘Not my story but just imagine being in a relationship with a man for five plus years you have given this man everything he wanted needed you thought y’all were happy only to go threw his phone and find yo man had a outside life that you didn’t know about and come to find out he has full blown HIV and you have it too.’
Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call CPD Area One detectives at 312-747-8380 or dial 911.

