HOME INVASION CREW: Six dead in Chicagoland home invasion

Murder City, USA lives up to its name.

Six members of the Martinez family were found dead in a gruesome crime scene earlier this week.  All but one perished from stabbings and blunt force injuries while one was shot.

This incident has all the tell-tale signs of a gang-related home invasion, perhaps MS-13 or similar.  The break into a home knowing people are home, then take one of the members hostage and order the remaining people to surrender valuables, open safes, and submit.

CHICAGO (DNAInfo) — The family of the victims of Chicago’s most deadly violent incident since 2003 are picking up the pieces in Texas and Chicago Friday after all six members of a Gage Park family were found dead at a “gruesome” crime scene in their home.

Autopsies on Friday afternoon revealed how the six members of the Martinez family were killed, though the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office did not release the names and ages of the victims, pending “official” identification.

An older woman and middle-aged man were stabbed and beaten, autopsy results showed. An older man and two boys were stabbed to death, and a middle-aged woman was shot.

All six deaths have been ruled homicides, the medical examiner’s office said.

Police acknowledge that the family was targeted.  Well, gee…  you think?  Anyone willing to kill six people for what’s inside a home either knows there’s significant valuables present, or they are particularly ruthless and evil.  Or both.

 

CHICAGO (WLS) — Chicago police say the family of six found dead in their home in Chicago’s Gage Park neighborhood were “targeted”.

Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Friday night the killings could have occurred during a robbery or a domestic incident. He says it’s also possible someone in the home “was involved in something that could have targeted them.”