CHICAGO (AP) — Murder charges have been filed against two men in connection with separate December shootings in Chicago’s South Shore community that left a church deacon and a musician dead.

Mark Hall and Devin Aldridge, both 23 years old, are each charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of 74-year-old Deacon Willie Cooper and 41-year-old blues guitarist Eric Davis.

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