IL - Dionus, India (3), & Elle (10) Neely, shot to death, Hazel Crest, 2 July 2016

Two young girls were shot to death alongside their father in south suburban Hazel Crest on Saturday in what may have been a dispute over a drug debt. The children were 3 and 10 years of age.

The killer or killers remain at large.

The man of the house, Dionus Neely, 39, was targeted.

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Police responded to a 2:30 a.m. Saturday call of "shots fired" in the 2400 block of Crescent Drive on Saturday and officers found all three inside the bullet-riddled home. Paramedics rushed Neely and his daughters, India Neely, 3, and Elle Neely, 10, to local hospitals but they succumbed to their injuries.

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KayElJay said:

http://patch.com/illinois/homewood-flossmoor/father-2-children-die-hazel-crest-shooting

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Three other children who live in the house were playing at a neighbor's home on Friday night. A neighbor told NBC 5 Chicago the gunshots woke her up and she heard a woman screaming and crying.

"She was just wailing, 'My babies, my babies,'" Joanne Polzin told NBC. "I didn't know it was them until the police all showed up.

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TeaTime said:

2 children murdered, ten others left to mourn in poverty because of dad's drug debts. Not saying that he deserved to be killed just that his choices and his actions brought this murderer to their home.

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