Husband, Wife Dead In Murder-Suicide Outside Church

A 39-year-old man fatally shot his wife, then killed himself Sunday afternoon outside a church in the city’s Austin neighborhood, police said.

The incident occurred at about 2 p.m. in the 5700-block of West Chicago Avenue across the street from Second Mt. Olive Baptist Church.

Witnesses said the woman’s husband was waiting for her in the parking lot with a gun. The wife was identified as Trinyce L. Sanders-Wilson, 36, of west suburban Broadview, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

Morning services were just finishing up when the shooting occurred.

Witness Andrew Davis said he heard one shot, then saw the woman fall to the ground. The man then shot the woman two more times, Davis said.