--- description: Chicago police say on man died and another is in critical condition after an apparent murder-suicide attempt in downtown high-rise building. title: Police: One Man Dead, Another Hospitalized After Chicago Shooting image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Police: One Man Dead, Another Hospitalized After Downtown Chicago Shooting  by [Noah Rayman](/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 31, 2014 4:26 PM CUT  by [Noah Rayman](/author/noah-rayman/)  ## Noah Rayman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 31, 2014 4:26 PM CUT Chicago police say one man died and another is in critical condition after an apparent murder-suicide attempt in a downtown high-rise building. Officer Jose Estrada, a spokesperson for the Chicago Police Department, said police received a call around 9:50 a.m. local time about shots fired on the seventeenth floor of the building. The suspected shooter was pronounced dead on the scene from an apparently self-inflicted wound. Another man, aged 54, was hospitalized in critical condition with a gunshot wound to the head. Local media reports indicate that the shooting occurred at the Bank of America building in the West Loop area. Police are investigating the incident as a murder-suicide, according to Estrada. According to the Associated Press, police say the suspected shooter was recently demoted and attacked his company’s CEO. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3064565/shots-fired-chicago/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3064565/shots-fired-chicago/"},"headline":"Police: One Man Dead, Another Hospitalized After Downtown Chicago Shooting","datePublished":"2014-07-31T16:26:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:26:55.223Z","description":"One man is dead and another in critical condition after an apparent murder-suicide","url":"https://time.com/3064565/shots-fired-chicago/","keywords":["Suicide","Crime","police","shooting","chicago"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Noah Rayman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/noah-rayman/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3064565/shots-fired-chicago/","name":"Police: One Man Dead, Another Hospitalized After Downtown Chicago Shooting"}}]}] ```