Two guys commit suicide

I live in what I consider to be a perfectly safe neighborhood. But there was a shooting a block away a few days ago. No one was injured. The cops were looking for two young men aged 23 and 19 who were suspects in a series of thefts and robberies in the area. The older one was from Illinois. I assume the younger one was, too.

They left the area and were 120 miles north of here. A SWAT team surrounded the apartment they were in and the two committed suicide. News reports didn't provide any detail but, at some point, they had been present when someone was murdered. I don't know if they were suspects in that crime.

I googled their names. The older fellow had been on the track team in 9th grade and the basketball team in 8th grade. He had an assault conviction at some point as a juvenile. When he was 18, he and a friend were arrested for series of thefts and robberies. They stole iPads and iPhones which they resold. When he was convicted, he was ordered to pay over $10,000 in restitution to his victims. He was also ordered to stay away from the University of Illinois campus. He may have been drawn by the university here hoping to get his hands on all those electronic devices the college students all seem to have.

He also had a conviction for a driving thing. For damaging property, resisting arrest and "escape". He had done this when he was 19 and was sentenced for it at 21.

I found his MySpace page. There was nothing there except a song by "Tyga" he had listened to.

There was no information at all on the younger kid.

Well, poor devils.