Police said the victims were four men, one woman and a child 11 or 12 years old.
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Interim Superintendent John Escalante said that officers went to the home after being asked to conduct a well-being check. Escalante says it’s probable they were all family members.
Police in Chicago found six people dead inside a single home in the city’s Gage Park on Thursday afternoon. The family included a woman with two sons, who were grade-school age, and her parents. When officers arrived to check on the missing co-worker, they looked through a window and saw “what they believed to be a body” inside the house.
They have not determined the cause of death.
While the Chicago Police 8th District has stepped up patrols in the area, Escalante said they do not believe there any threat to the surrounding community.
Chicago police have confirmed an investigation into the homicides is underway.
He said he had not seen the woman for several days.
Gage Park is a working class neighborhood on Chicago’s southwest side near Midway Airport. “We don’t understand what happened”, she said.
“We are in shock”, the relative said.
“Everything was closed up tight”, Williams, who has lived directly next door for three years, said.
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“I feel safe as long as it’s daylight out, but I won’t come out at night, no way”, Magas said.
