(WBBM NEWSRADIO) — A mother who had missed seeing her son on Christmas discovered his body four days after a fire in Roseland, on Chicago’s south side.
Michelle Murray filed a missing persons report and had been looking for her 34-year-old son Wesley Freeman at hospitals and with relatives.
CBS News Chicago reports she says the police and fire departments told her they had checked the garage Freeman had been living in after a fire on Christmas Day and said it was vacant.
"I'm feeling good each time I called the fire department and the police department, because they constantly telling me that it was no one there, that they checked and no one's there," Murray said.
Murray says despite requests for them to come back to 94th and LaSalle streets she was the one to find his body on Sunday.
"It hurts. It hurts a lot. He was there for all them days, and I'm running around calling all these different places, and he's right here the whole time,"
Police say they’re investigating the death. Detectives and members of the Buildings Department were at the scene Monday while the Medical Examiner is conducting an autopsy.
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