July 19--A woman and three children were found dead in a decomposing state late Saturday evening inside a home on Chicago's South Side, authorities said.
Officials discovered the four bodies around 8:25 p.m. inside a one-story red brick house in the 8300 block of South Drexel Avenue in the East Chatham neighborhood, according to police.
It was not known how the four died. Official sources had not immediately revealed the exact ages and names of the woman and the children, but relatives told WGN-TV that the woman was Latoya Jackson, 27, and that she was the mother of the three children. Relatives said that the three boys are Andrew, 11; Cameron, 9; and Cantrell, 5.
There was evidence of a fire inside the home, according to fire authorities, who said they had never received a call about a fire at that address.
Area South detectives are conducting a death investigation.
For more details about the story from Tribune reporters Alexandra Chachkevitch, Patrick O'Connell and Peter Nickeas and coverage from the scene in East Chatham, click here.
