CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Residents of Chinatown gathered Monday night to hear from police after two men were shot to death in their neighborhood over the weekend.
Meanwhile, a suspect has been charged in connection with a double homicide Sunday in Chinatown.
The two men were murdered around 2:15 a.m. Sunday morning. Police said Huayi Bian, 36, and Weizhong Xiong, 38, were sitting in a car with a 44-year-old woman when someone walked up and tried to rob them in the 2000 block of South Wells Street.
The woman complied with the robber, but the men resisted, at which point the suspect fired multiple shots, police said. Both men were shot in the head and pronounced dead at the scene. The woman was not injured.
Police met with Chinatown residents about it Monday night.
"Some very good video that the offender in this incident leaving the scene," police said.
Chris Huang tells CBS 2 residents of the community have been shaken by the double murder.
"We kind of like just woke up to this. It's like, whoa, it actually happened," Huang said.
Police announced murder charges Monday night against 20-year-old Alvin Thomas, of South Shore. A Cook County judge denied for Thomas, who faced two counts of first-degree murder.
Thomas was on probation at the time of the shooting after his conviction for a 2018 robbery, according to court records.
Judge Arther Wesley Willis ordered Thomas held on a violation of his probation in that case, as well as denying Thomas bail on the latest charges.
Thomas was arrested about 10 minutes after the shooting in the 2100 block of South Archer Avenue, Chicago police said.
At the time of his arrest, Thomas was on probation for a 2018 robbery charge in Chicago, according to county records. He was released on home electronic monitoring after posting a $5,000 bond, and pleaded guilty to the charge in July 2019. He was sentenced to two years probation with credit for 319 days already served, county records state.
While out on bond, Thomas was charged with manufacture and delivery of cannabis in February 2019, but the charge was dropped the next month, according to county records.
