CHICAGO (AP) – Chicago police are investigating what led to the deaths of four men, a woman and a child whose bodies were found inside a home on the city’s South Side.
Officers discovered the bodies Thursday, and police said the case was being treated as an apparent multiple homicide.
Interim Chicago Police Superintendent John Escalante told reporters the case appeared to be an isolated incident and there was no wider threat to the community. 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.
Escalante says the bodies were found with “signs of trauma.” He gave no further details.
No identities were immediately released. Escalante says it’s probable they were all family members.