Six found slain in Gage Park home, including child (Chicago)

Chicago Tribune ^ | 2/4/2016 | Peter Nickeas, Jeremy Gorner, Lolly Bowean and Tony Briscoe

[Beave Meister]

Hours after six bodies were discovered in a Gage Park bungalow, Noemi Martinez waited by the phone nearly a thousand miles away in Texas, still not sure whether the victims were family members her husband had just visited over Christmas.

"This is shocking and I don’t know what to think,” she said. “We’re trying to find out what’s going on.”

Finally, about four hours after police found the bodies of five adults and one child around 10 years old, Martinez was resigned to the idea that they were her relatives. But she still had many questions about what happened inside the brick bungalow in the 5700 block of South California Avenue.

“We’re still trying to figure it all out,” she said through tears. “We don’t know what happened.”

Police say the six victims were found throughout the home around 1:05 p.m. after a co-worker of a man who lived there called 911, police said. They appeared to have been stabbed, but police were waiting for autopsies.

[kcvl]

The father of the two children who lived in the house is in Mexico, Martinez said.

She described the grandparents as devoted to their children and grandchildren. The grandmother “was always a stay-at-home wife and mother who loved taking care of her grandkids,” Martinez said. Their son “treated those boys like they were his own. They were his nephews, but people thought they were his sons. He was close to them.”

Through the years, the grandparents allowed relatives to stay in their spacious house until they could get on their feet. Martinez said she and her husband had stayed there.

“We were close because we were together,” she said. “My husband was just there with them for Christmas. He had a good time, and was just chilling with his uncle and cousins. Nothing seemed to be wrong.

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[ladyjane]

There is some good Mexican food in Boston. Casa Romera in Boston is very good. Hard to find but worth the search for a parking space. And there is Anna’s Taqueria that is good also.

[Mears]

My son lives in that area and he and his family are real “foodies”.

I have never heard them mention a Mexican restaurant,but when they lived in Waltham they ate Mexican often.

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[MadMax, the Grinning Reaper]

THis is a tragedy no matter why it happened.