CHICAGO — Five of the people whose bodies were found in a house on Chicago’s South Side this week were stabbed to death and a sixth victim died of multiple gunshot wounds, authorities said Friday, and none of the victims killed themselves.
Autopsies showed the cause of death of two of the stabbing victims was both sharp and blunt force trauma injuries, the Cook County medical examiner’s office said in a news release, while the two children who died had been stabbed to death.
The release did not provide any further information, including the names and ages of the victims — two women, two men and two children.
Hours after the bodies were found Thursday, Chicago Police said it was possible someone in the house killed the five others before committing suicide, but the medical examiner’s office said all of the deaths were homicides. Police found the bodies after a co-worker of one of the victims called to report the man had not been at work for two days.
Chicago Police Chief of Detectives Eugene Roy said earlier Friday that it appeared the victims were members of the same family. There were no signs of forced entry to the residence in the Gage Park neighborhood, the doors were locked, the home didn’t appear ransacked and the victims weren’t bound, Roy said.
Police have added extra patrols in the neighborhood, but said they did not believe there was a wider threat.