By Howard Packowitz
UPDATED: Normal Police have scheduled a 2 p.m. news conference to provide an update on the homicide investigation.
NORMAL – Two men are dead and police are questioning a third man who might know what prompted an exchange of gunfire Wednesday night in the Lancaster Heights apartment complex.
Police were called shortly before 10 p.m. to an apartment at 1444 E. College Ave. in Normal. Police Chief Rick Bleichner said multiple shots were fired from multiple weapons, and the two dead men were found laying just inside doorway.
The chief said a preliminary investigation shows the shooting might be drug related.
He says there’s no additional danger to the public.
“This as out of the ordinary as it is for the Town of Normal, this was an incident in which these individuals targeted each other and it was something related specifically to and confined to this apartment behind us, said Bleichner while meeting with reporters at the crime scene.
He said the third man was not under arrest.
“We are talking with him to determine what he can share with us, what happened, and what occurred,” said Bleichner.
The coroner’s office has scheduled autopsies, and the McLean County State’s Attorney’s office is assisting Normal Police in the investigation.
Howard Packowitz can be reached at [email protected]
