Widow, son of late Chicago commissioner found shot dead inside home in suspected homicide

A salient Chicago household is astatine the halfway of a treble homicide probe aft the widow and lad of precocious Cook County Commissioner Dennis Deer were recovered changeable to decease Tuesday wrong a West Side home.

Officers responded to the responded to the North Lawndale location conscionable earlier 6 p.m. section clip Tuesday wherever they recovered Deer's widow, Barbara Deer, 51, and son, Kaleb Deer, 23, changeable to death, FOX 32 Chicago reported.

Barbara Deer suffered aggregate gunshot wounds to the thorax and Kaleb Deer had been changeable successful the head, according to the report.

It is unclear what led to the find of the bodies.

Chicago constabulary accidental the widow and lad of the precocious Cook County commissioner were recovered changeable to decease Tuesday wrong a West Side home. (iStock)

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Police noted a limb was recovered astatine the scene, though its details person not yet been publically released.

Neighbor Rev. Chris Griffin told WGN-TV determination was suspicious enactment astatine the Deer household earlier constabulary responded, noting helium received a telephone to "check connected idiosyncratic successful Barbara’s home."

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"We didn’t cognize what was going on," Griffin told the outlet. "When we got here, the location was locked, some doors were closed, their canine was extracurricular barking, which is not normal. … The canine had been retired for implicit an hour, and that was a small spot of a reddish flag."

The deaths are being investigated arsenic homicide, according to the report. No arrests person been announced.

Authorities person not yet released immoderate fishy accusation oregon arrests. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service via Getty Images, File)

Barbara Deer, a North Lawndale native, joined her precocious schoolhouse sweetheart, Dennis Deer, 51, who died successful 2024 pursuing a treble lung transplant, FOX 32 and WGN-TV reported.

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She was progressive successful the community, volunteering and sitting connected assorted assemblage committees.