As many as five people were found dead with gunshot wounds in an apparent murder-suicide inside a house in the north Chicago suburb of Mundelein late Sunday night, October 18. Mundelein police were called for a wellbeing check at a house in the 200 block of Wellington Avenue at 11:45 p.m. when a family member claimed they could not reach their relatives.
The victims’ identities have not been released. Inside the house, officers found three men and two women dead, per CBS News. All five of them appeared to have been shot with a handgun at close range. However, police did say that four of the victims were family members, while the fifth was involved in a domestic relationship with the suspected shooter. Mundelein police were investigating the incident along with the Lake County Major Crimes Task Force.
Anyone with information on the incident is urged to call Mundelein police at 847-968-4600.
Police said that a preliminary investigation determined that they died in a murder-suicide. The incident appears to be isolated and there is no threat to the public, according to police. Neighbors spoke out about the incident, according to the outlet.
They described the family as being quiet.
A retired couple who used to run a veterinary clinic in Libertyville had lived in the house for decades, according to neighbors.
Later, investigators were seen trying to get inside a Volkswagen with Illinois plates. The car was in a funeral home parking lot that butts up to the red house. The vehicle was wrapped in crime scene tape. However, the vehicle’s relevance to the death investigation was unclear.
