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Once again, a nightmare-like news story may turn out to be the product of real-life insanity. Sources are now offering details about the murder of four people in their Chicago home: an adult woman and three children (including an infant) that occurred early Wednesday.
A man arrested after a woman and three children, including an infant and a toddler, were found shot to death in a Chicago home told police voices encouraged him to kill his family and he was sorry he had run out of bullets, a person close to the investigation told the Associated Press.
Those killed inside a brick home on the city's southwest side early Wednesday included the suspected gunman's wife, his 7-month-old son and his two nieces, said the person who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the investigation. A woman and a teenage boy also were wounded and remained hospitalized.
The Cook County Medical Examiner's office identified the dead as: 7-month-old Jahad Larry, 3-year-old Kelesha Larry, 16-year-old Keyshai Fields and 19-year-old Tawana Thompson Larry.
The person said the suspected gunman told police Allah had told him to kill family members. The man's sister told reporters at a vigil outside the home that her brother had recently been reading passages from an Islamic text that led him to believe he should kill someone.
The person who spoke on condition of anonymity said police believe the gunman had also chased a 12-year-old girl out of the house and fired his weapon at her, but missed, then fled the scene. The person said the girl notified police. Source: Relative in custody after 4 killed in Chicago home, Associated Press
Although there is still some discrepancy between names listed on court records believed related to the suspect and the deceased, it appears that the suspected gunman and his deceased wife were involved in a domestic dispute last year.
The man named in court documents has a criminal history involving drugs and theft, beginning when he was in his late teens. In 2000, he was sentenced to 20 months in prison for felony cocaine possession.
Most recently, prosecutors in September 2009 charged him with disorderly conduct and battery, after he allegedly attacked Tawana Thompson Larry, 18, at the time, in a van in a Walmart parking lot in Madison.
According to a criminal complaint, Tawana Thompson Larry told police the man was angry with her, although the complaint does not say why. As she unloaded the baby stroller, he allegedly grabbed her face and squeezed her cheeks, pulled her back inside the van and put her in a choke hold, the complaint said.
He then got out of the van and started swearing at bystanders, shouting something, like, "What would you do if your woman was acting like this?" He eventually pleaded no contest to misdemeanor battery. Source: Relative in custody after 4 killed in Chicago home, Associated Press
If this account of the violence between Tawana Thompson Larry and her husband is true, the violent outcome is less of a surprise, but still no less of a shock.
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By: tania on 4/15/2010 5:53PM
WOW this is sad, sorry to the Larry family. I know my words can not console you at the moment, but the LORD can. Remember he will come and everybody whos done wrong will pay. I'm so sorry and my condolenscence are with you.
GOD BLESS UR FAMILY!
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By: All Winners LOVE Winners on 4/15/2010 10:24PM
EveryONE who Has Done Wrong HAS PAID & Will Continue to Pay.......Ya Know
Your Words Appear to be Sincere...Bless You
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By: ADMR on 4/16/2010 11:25AM
Glad to SEE Things Handled In a SERIOUS Manner....Mentally Ill Pathological Liars are DANGEROUS...
Thank You
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By: ERMA GIBSON on 4/16/2010 11:46AM
I JUST WANT TO EXTEND NY CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY. I CANT IMAGINE THE PAIN AND HURT THAT THEY ARE GOING THROUGH AT THIS. MY HEART AND PRAYERS GOES OUT TO THEM AND I WILL KEEP THEIR FAMILY IN MY PRAYERS.GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILY. BUT DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IS PLAGUEING OUR BLACK FAMILIES AND WHAT IS BEING DONE ABOUT IT NOTHING.OUR SYSTEM DOES NOT DO ENOUGH TO PROTECT THE VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC. I AM A VICTIM OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE EVEN THOUGH I LEFT THE SITUTION I WERE STILL HARASSED AND STALKED AND HE ALMOST KILLED ME. FOR MANY YEARS THIS WENT ON AND I COULDNT GET THE HELP THAT I NEEDED TO HAVE THIS MAN LOCKED UP.SO I MOVED AND HE NEVER FOUND OUT.I FEEL LIKE THE AUTHORITIES DIDNT INTERVINE ENOUGH FOR ME I JUST THANK GOD IT DIDNT RESULT INTO SOMETHING DEADLY.
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