A Chicago divorce between a 72-year-old man and his 68-year-old wife has ended in a tragic murder-suicide.

According to police, the divorce meant to end the couple’s rocky decades-old marriage had stalled over arguments about what to do with their apartment house at 1700 W. Erie St. in the city’s West Town neighborhood.

A court judge eventually ordered that the home be sold and the proceeds split between the two. When the couple’s adult sons, aged 44 and 42, served their father with a legal notice to leave the building, the 72-year-old man shot them both before turning the gun on himself.

The sons had assumed ownership of the property on their mother’s behalf and were seeking to sell it. When their father refused to exit the premises, they served him with an eviction, which is what led to the shooting.

Police Superintendent Jody Weis had some choice words for the “ambush style” killings of the two men.

“Their lives will never be the same due to this selfish and cowardly action of this murderer, who, after committing these crimes, turned his gun on himself rather than face justice,” Weis said.