Three children were critically injured and two women killed when gunmen got out of cars in the Grand Crossing neighborhood early Thursday morning and sprayed a house with bullets, police said. Chicago police said officers responded to calls and a technology alert of shots fired in the 7100 block of South Woodlawn Avenue at around 6:15 a.m. Police found five victims with gunshot wounds. Three boys, aged 5, 7, and 8, were all in critical condition at Comer Children’s Hospital, according to police. A 42-year-old woman was pronounced dead at the scene and a 22-year-old woman died at University of Chicago Hospital, police said. Deputy Chief Don Jerome told reporters Thursday morning that two cars pulled up in the area, “multiple subjects exited those vehicles and fired” at the home with a rifle and handgun. The department declined to release details about the cars, but said the department is reviewing license plates and video details. The offenders fled in an unknown direction and no arrests have been made, police said. CPD is seeking tips and Area One detectives are investigating. While warning information about the incident was preliminary, Jerome said, “it appears that this started from some type of personal dispute.” Crisis intervention workers milled around the crime scene in drizzling rain Thursday morning, speaking with neighbors and those gathered nearby. “My heart bleeds for this community, which is a relatively quiet community not really used to this sort of violence,” Ald. Desmon Yancy, 5th, said at the Thursday morning press briefing with police and Deputy Mayor Garien Gatewood. “The summer just getting started,” Yancy said. “I don’t want to stand in front of another group of microphones and have another discussion about the pain that it’s caused in our community. The violence just has to stop.” Michael Lemon, 25, said he woke up in his home to the sound of what he thought were firecrackers, and instead found his mother, brother and three cousins were shot and saw bullet holes in the front windows. “Ran out my room, seen my little brother bleeding. I just seen bloodshed. Once I saw blood, I didn’t know what to do,” he said. “Took an innocent woman’s life, took two innocent women’s lives… Chicago ain’t got no remorse.” Lemon described his mother, Nakeeshia Strong, as a “loving, fun person,” who raised a big, happy family. Her nickname was Kesha Boo, and she was letting his older cousin stay in the home. “All she wanted to do was live for her kids, have fun with her kids, y’all just took that away from her kids,” he said. He said his younger brother “wanted to be a football superstar… now he’s got to grow up without his mama.” “I’m empty inside but at the same time, I’m hurt, I’m shattered,” he said. “You never know when it’s your parent’s last day or your kid’s last day. I just realized that today.” aquig@chicagotribune.com