Mother ‘drowned toddler, then jumped out 11th floor window with baby and killed him too’
The boys may be the first murders of 2020 in Chicago.
A mother drowned her toddler son in a bath, then jumped out of an 11th floor window with her baby boy and killed him too, police say.
Police have not identified the mother, who is in her 30’s and survived the apparent homicide-suicide attempt in Chicago, Illinois early Thursday morning. She remains in critically condition in the hospital, police said.
Officers responded to the scene after receiving reports of a ‘person down.’ When they arrived, they found the woman with her son, about one year-old, on the ground.
A security worker took police to the woman’s apartment on the 11th floor. Inside, they located another boy unresponsive in a bathtub. The boy appeared to be approximately two-years-old, police said.
They also found a man in his 70s with cuts to his face and body. That man told police his adult daughter ‘began stabbing him and then jumped from the 11th floor with her one-year-old son,’ police said, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Two young children are dead in what appears to be a murder-attempted suicide in the South Shore neighborhood in #Chicago. Details at 8am from @WGNRadioNews on 720, pic.twitter.com/PVVhtSpfNl
— Steve Grzanich (@SteveGrzanich) January 2, 2020
Both boys were taken to Comer Children’s Hospital where they were pronounced dead.
The woman and her father were transported to the University of Chicago Medical Center where they were listed in critical condition.
Neither the woman, her deceased sons or her father have been identified.
It is likely that the boys are the first murders of 2020 in Chicago.