IL - Six Martinez family members murdered, Chicago, 4 Feb 2016 *Arrests* *guilty*

I just saw this on story on twitter. It sounds absolutely awful!!
 
http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/7/71/1303130/six-people-found-slain-gage-park

Six people, including a child, were found slain Thursday afternoon in a home on the Southwest Side, authorities said.

A police officer was called to a brick bungalow in the 5700 block of South California in the Gage Park neighborhood for a well-being check just after 1 p.m.. When she entered the home, she found one person who had been stabbed to death, then discovered the other bodies, a police source said.
More at link...
 
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/loca...367714191.html?_osource=SocialFlowTwt_CHBrand

Six people were found dead at a Southwest Side home Thursday afternoon, according to police.

Officers performing a well-being check at a Gage Park house about 1:05 p.m. in the 5700 block of South California after a coworker of a man who lives in the house said he had not shown up for two days.

During the check, police said they discovered the bodies of four men, one female adult and one child of an unknown sex who lived in this home.
 
Peter Nickeas (@PeterNickeas): https://twitter.com/PeterNickeas?s=09

6 found dead here in a house, 57/California. Homicide. One ambulance here. Giant crime scene now. #chicago https://t.co/Lh9bl3r6g0

The six found dead here were bound and stabbed. 57/California #chicago https://t.co/mwq2XEqZCt

CPD sup said no threat to community but couldn't say for certain, wouldn't say what led police to believe that. Cars detailed just in case
 
No threat to the community? What??
 
Oh my goodness, this is about 20 minutes away from my parents' house.

So all six were bound and stabbed? But they don't think there's a threat to the community? Hmm... I wonder if they have their sights on a suspect already.

I'll be following this one for sure.

jmo
 
I'd say anyone who could do this to someone is Definitely a Threat to the community. In many ways.
 
This is horrible and sounds personal to me.
RIP victims.
 
CPD sup said no threat to community but couldn't say for certain,


Sounds pretty certain to me.
 
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...eople-dead-southwest-side-20160204-story.html
[...]
Police say the six victims were found throughout the home around 1:05 p.m. after a co-worker of a man who lived there called 911, police said. They appeared to have been stabbed, but police were waiting for autopsies.

The co-worker told police the man had not shown up for work Wednesday or Thursday, Interim Police Superintendent John Escalante said at a news conference near the home. From outside, an officer saw "what they believed to be a body" inside on the floor, he said. They entered and discovered the bodies in different locations in the home.
Escalante said there were "signs of trauma to the bodies.” Responding to a reporter's question, Escalante said there was no indication anyone inside had committed suicide, though police had not ruled out anything.

Investigators were being “careful” and “thorough” as they “collect as much evidence as possible," he said.

The Chicago Lawn District added patrols in the area, but Escalante said he did not believe there was a threat to the community. The deaths were "contained within the residence," he said, without explaining.

Noemi Martinez said a couple in their 60s lived downstairs in the bungalow with their son, in his 40s. Their daughter, in her 30s, lived on the second floor with her two children, one around 9 or and the other in his teens.

More at link & video of Police Superintendent Escalante speaking...
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Reading the statements from the neighbors is just heartbreaking!
 
This is so sad! After reading the articles, I believe one of the "four men" is likely the teenage son of the woman who was killed.
 
Interim Chicago Police Superintendent John Escalante said it appeared 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."

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said later Thursday that police were "not yet" searching for suspects. The bodies had signs of trauma, but authorities have not determined the cause of death.

http://www.wsbtv.com/ap/ap/us/bodie...icagos-s/nqJ54/?ecmp=wsbtv_social_twitter_sfp
 
It does not sound like a typical family murder-suicide. It may have been a family member though. I wonder if there are other sons or cousins that are estranged from the family?
 
Mexican 'family-of-six' found dead in Chicago in apparent murder-suicide

Woman, a child and four men have been found dead in a Chicago home

All six are believed to have been murdered, police said

They have not been identified and their causes of death are not known

Five were adults and one of them was a child aged 10 to 12, officers said

Police say it is possible the six died during a murder-suicide

It is probable that the six were a family living in the home, cops said

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...e-home-Chicagos-South-Side.html#ixzz3zHY4A1oi
 
Sam Charles (@samjcharles): https://twitter.com/samjcharles?s=09

CPD Chief of Detectives Eugene Roy will give update this morning on investigation of 6 people found killed in a bungalow at 57th/California

Roy will address reporters at 7:30 a.m. at Navy Pier, where a CPD graduation ceremony will be held at 8:30 a.m.

Gene Roy: Officers saw 1 body in home at 57/California through window, found 5 more upon entering

"A rather complex scene"

4 adults, 2 women & 2 men. 2 teen boys, 10 and 13

Still in evidence recovery and processing phase, working "meticulously"

Gene Roy: Victims suffered blunt trauma, no signs of forced entry. House not ransacked, vics were not bound

Too early to tell on motive, not commenting on evidence recovery

No signs of gunfire in the house
 
"Police say the six victims were found throughout the home around 1:05 p.m. after a co-worker of a man who lived there called 911, police said. The victims appeared to have been stabbed, but police were waiting for autopsies."

"As police expanded the crime scene, students and families were guided around the tape.

Later, when crowds thinned and eventually dispersed, Chicago police detectives combed through the back alley, peering into garbage cans and shining a flashlight in behind the home.

When a van arrived around 8 p.m. to bring taking the bodies away, an evidence technician in a white jumpsuit lifted open the door to the garage behind the home. Workers then carried a white body bag on a stretcher from the garage to the back of the van."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...eople-dead-southwest-side-20160204-story.html

The six were inside of the home. It seems like one body found in the garage. Maybe this is why they think there is no threat to the community.
 

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