CHICAGO — Four people were killed in a "suspected drug house" on the Far South Side Saturday, and police said they think they were targeted by someone who bought drugs from the home earlier in the day.
At 12:39 p.m. Saturday, officers responded to a call in the 100 block of West 105th Place and found that five people had been shot, police said. Two women were found outside the house. One was pronounced dead on the scene and the other, an 18-year-old woman, was brought to Advocate Christ Medical Center in critical condition, police said.
Once inside the home, officers found two men and a woman dead, police said. They also found a 2-year-old who was not wounded but taken to Roseland Hospital to get checked out, police said.
The victims were inside a "suspected drug house," and their deaths may have stemmed from the drug trade, Chicago Police Department spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said. They were shot during a home invasion and possible robbery by a person or group that had bought drugs from the house earlier in the day Saturday, and the victims likely knew their killers, Guglielmi said.
Cook County Medical Examiner's Office has identified the victims as Scott Travis Thompson, 45, of the first block of Kempton Drive in Romeoville, and Elijiah Jackson, 36, Shacora Jackson, 40 and Nateyah Yafah Hines, 19, all of the 100 block of West 105th St.
Three of the victims were killed by a shot to their heads and the fourth was killed by multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.
No one was in custody, but Guglielmi said detectives have developed "pretty optimistic leads."
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