Two people were shot to death Monday afternoon in the employee parking lot of a UPS sorting facility in the southwest suburbs in what police are investigating as a murder-suicide.
Officers responded to the shooting shortly before 1 p.m. and found a man and woman outside the Hodgkins facility, at 1 UPS Way, according to statement from Hodgkins police.
They were pronounced dead at the scene, police said. A semi-automatic handgun was recovered.
The pair haven’t been identified, and it wasn’t immediately clear if they were UPS employees, police said.
Police said the incident was being investigated as a murder-suicide.
“We do not anticipate any further danger to the public at this time,” said Rodney Cummings, administrative assistant to Chief Ernest Millsap.
The sorting facility employs around 11,000 people and is located 17 southwest of Chicago near I-55 and I-294, according to Trains Magazine.
A spokesman for UPS said the company couldn’t comment on the investigation.
“We are deeply saddened by the incident that occurred this afternoon, and we are cooperating with the responding authorities,” UPS spokesman Matthew O’Connor said in an emailed statement.
The Village of Hodgkins, in suburban Cook County, has a population around 1,800.
Hodgkins has no other deaths ruled as homicides, according to Cook County medical examiner data that goes back to 2014.