A Georgia man has been accused of fatally shooting his estranged wife in her Chicago home before taking his own life on Monday afternoon, investigators said.
According to police reports, police in Alpharetta, Georgia, requested a well-being check on Raheel Ahmed, 36, after his family had reported him missing from the Atlanta suburb in which he resides.
The well-being check was conducted at the home of Ahmed’s wife, Sania Khan, 29, in Streeterville, Illinois. An officer from Alpharetta told Chicago police that the two were “going through a divorce,” reports said.
The report continued saying that Ahmed was depressed and had traveled to Chicago as a way to “salvage the marriage,” but things took a turn for the worse.
When officers arrived at the building in the 200 block of East Ohio Street around 4:30 p.m., they knocked on the door and heard a single gunshot followed by a “verbal groan,” the reports say.
Police then entered and found Khan unresponsive near the door with a gunshot wound to the back of the head with blood on her face that had already dried, ABC7 reported.
The officers then made their way to the bedroom, where they found Ahmed also shot in the head, holding a 9mm Glock handgun with a suicide note nearby, reports state.
Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office shared that Khan was pronounced dead at the scene, and Ahmed was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Khan’s death is being ruled a homicide, and Ahmed’s death is being listed as a suicide, according to the medical examiner’s office.
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