Chicago police say three people are charged in connection with a dead child whom firefighters found after putting out a small blaze in an abandoned home.
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Manuel Aguilar, 4, of the 6400 block of South Wolcott Avenue, was pronounced dead by emergency responders after his body, wrapped in a burnt blanket, was uncovered underneath cloth and debris in the home’s burning basement, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
Firefighters were called to scene in the city’s Englewood neighborhood on the South Side on Tuesday night.
CHICAGO (AP) – Bond has been set at $2 million for the mother of a 4-year-old boy whose burned remains were found in the basement of a vacant house by Chicago Fire Department personnel. The sex of the baby was unclear, and investigators have not said how or when the child appeared to have died.
According to the fire department, firefighters smelled an accelerant in the gangway, which led them to the abandoned building.
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