More than two months after the Hakeem brothers were shot and killed in their downtown Evanston business, their deaths have been ruled homicides, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

They died from multiple gunshot wounds, the medical examiner’s office said Friday morning. The cause and manner of their deaths had been classified as “pending further investigation” until this week.

Azim Hakeem, 38, and Mobeen Hakeem, 34, were found shot to death the night of July 30 in the basement of Evanston Pipe & Tobacco, 923 Davis St. Family members believe the brothers were working at the shop previously run by their father when they were taken to the basement and shot multiple times.

Farheen Hakeem, the brothers’ sister, said Mobeen Hakeem was shot five times in the head, which has led her parents to suspect a hate crime.

“My parents believe you must be really angry at somebody if you do five shots,” she said.

On Thursday evening, Cmdr. Jay Parrott said there are “no indicators” the fatal shootings were a hate crime.

“But we don’t ever discount information people bring to us,” he added.

— Patrick Svitek