Yuriy M. Naroditskiy, an 84-year-old man, was found dead with a gunshot wound to the head inside his home in the 600 block of West Diversey Avenue in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood on August 25, 2016. He was pronounced dead at 9:20 a.m. by the Cook County medical examiner's office. An elderly woman was also found in the home with a gunshot wound to the head and was taken to Illinois Masonic Medical Center in critical condition.
Detectives investigated the shooting as a possible attempted murder-suicide, believing that Naroditskiy shot the woman before turning the gun on himself.
There were no arrests or suspects identified in connection with Yuriy M. Naroditskiy's death. The investigation concluded that it was a tragic incident involving only the deceased and the critically injured woman. No further litigations, murder cases, or investigations were pursued as there was no evidence of foul play beyond the initial incident.
Yuriy M. Naroditskiy's ethnicity was not disclosed in the available information. The case was treated as a non-criminal incident, and no additional details were released to the public regarding the circumstances leading up to the shooting.
