Five people were found dead Wednesday morning in a home in northwest suburban Buffalo Grove, police said.
Officers were called to conduct a well-being check about 11 a.m. on a woman at the home in the 2800 block of Acacia Terrace, according to a statement from Buffalo Grove police.
When no one answered, the officers forced their way inside and made a sweep of the home, finding the five people dead, police said.
A preliminary investigation indicated the incident was domestic in nature, though police didn’t release any information about the circumstances.
Neighbors were shocked to hear about the deaths on their normally quiet block.
According to two neighbors, a family of five lives in the house — a husband and wife, a grandmother and two children ages around 3 and 7.
“They were a regular-looking family,” said one neighbor, who asked not to be named. “The husband was a nice guy, he’d say hello in the morning when dropping off the girls at the bus.”
He said they moved into the home about five years ago. The neighbor said the children attend school with his sons.
Another neighbor described news of the deaths as “devastating.”
“There’s five dead bodies over there,” he said. The neighbor said he would regularly see the mother walking with her kids and their dog around the neighborhood in the summer.
Both neighbors said they recently heard that the parents were going through a divorce, but they did not know any other details.
(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire & Chicago Sun-Times 2022. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)
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