By Townhall Chicago News Staff
Mundelein police found five people dead inside a home early Monday in what investigators are calling an apparent murder-suicide.
Officers responded to the 200 block of Wellington Avenue around 11:45 p.m. Sunday for a welfare check, according to police. They found five victims dead of apparent gunshot wounds inside the home.
Four of the victims were family members, and the fifth was in a domestic relationship with the suspected shooter, police said. Investigators have not released the names of those killed.
A neighbor described the household as a quiet presence on the block.
“She was very friendly, and she was elderly, and she would just — she liked cats,” the neighbor said.
Mundelein police have not said what prompted the welfare check or released additional details about a possible motive. The investigation is ongoing.
Mundelein, a village of about 32,000 residents in Lake County, has not seen a crime of this scale in recent years. Police have not said whether charges will be filed, given the nature of a murder-suicide investigation.
