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Chicago police say the bodies of four men, one woman and a child have been found inside a home on the city’s South Side in what is being investigated as an apparent multiple homicide.
Interim Chicago Police Superintendent John Escalante said Thursday that it appears to be an isolated incident and there was no wider threat to the community, but police added extra patrols in the neighborhood as a precaution. Asked whether it could have been a murder-suicide, he said it was “a possibility.”
Authorities are still working to identify the dead. Escalante says it’s probable they were all family members.
He says police entered the house in Chicago’s Gage Park neighborhood after receiving a call from a co-worker to check on person who lived there. The person had missed two days of work, which was unusual.
Authorities have not determined how the people died.
