No suspects are in custody in connection with the Monday morning double homicide in Janesville, but police chief Dave Moore provided some updates on the investigation during a press conference Monday evening.
Moore said the two victims were seen on security footage at the Janesville Travel Center truck stop on Highway 14/Humes Road at around 2:00 a.m. The call to emergency dispatch came in at 3:17 a.m., and the two victims were found with gunshot wounds a few hundred feet south of the gas station on Midvale Drive. Officers also found shell casings at the scene.
Police are not releasing the names of the victims until they finish notifying family members, but chief Moore said they were both Janesville women who were friends and have young children.
Moore said the victims left the truck stop in a vehicle that was later located abandoned along Interstate 90 in Illinois near Hoffman Estates around 4:30 a.m.
He couldn’t provide much information about the vehicle, only that officers are treating it as a crime scene.
The victims were alive at the crime scene when police arrived, but they later succumbed to their injuries at Mercy Hospital in Janesville.
Moore expects the autopsies to be completed and the victims to be identified in the next few days.
