5 found dead in suburban Chicago home

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Oct 19, 2026
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AI GeneratedPolice are investigating a devastating scene in Mundelein where five people—three men and two women—were found dead inside a home. The discovery was made during a welfare check late last night. All victims suffered apparent gunshot wounds, and two handguns were recovered at the scene. Authorities believe the victims were family members or in a domestic relationship.
And we're also receiving breaking developments in an investigation
we have been following all morning.
It is very peculiar. We now know five people are dead
inside a home in Mundelein.
Saquon has been out there all morning long. She joins us live.
Say, what have we learned?
Well, Natalie, it's just devastating that information coming in from
the Mundelein Police Department in just the last 30 minutes or so.
But as you mentioned, we know
that five people are dead at this point.
We saw their bodies being carried out this morning of
this home. And we know three of them were men, two of them were women.
And I'll step out of the way
and you can see because this is still very much
an active investigation. Right now, investigators
seem to be very focused on the vehicles that are in the driveway.
And what's interesting is some of
the neighbors we were talking to this morning
who have been living here on the same street for about
30 years now say that the vehicle that's furthest in the driveway,
which is a red vehicle, does seem
familiar to them. They say that they've seen
that vehicle many times around this house. But what's
not familiar to them are the two vehicles that are in the driveway,
the two closest to us that
you're seeing right now. You can see a lot
of these investigators kind of going in and out of
the house, in and out of vehicles at this point.
Another vehicle they were really focused on just
a little bit ago is this vehicle that's parked
in the parking lot of a funeral home that happens to
be right next door to this house that investigators seem
to be focused on. And so right now we know
that that car is being blocked off as part of this investigation.
You can see out here live
that there is a Volkswagen sedan in the parking lot
of this funeral home, and police were very
clear in blocking that area off.
We saw them dusting for fingerprints and taking photographs,
which is very typical in investigations,
and we're still trying to confirm exactly what that
connection is with that vehicle.
Once again, investigators have been out here on site since,
Gosh, 11.45 last night, according to this release.
They say that this all started when they came here for a welfare check,
and that is when officers found
those five people dead inside of this home.
We have seen some of the funeral home vehicles being used
as transport vehicles for these victims,
which is, again, also very typical for Lake County.
It sounds like they do partner a lot
with funeral directors in the area to make that happen.
But take a look, I mean, you can see
these investigators are basically taking photos
of that car that's in the driveway.
They've pretty much opened just about every
single door of that vehicle at this point.
So one thing I want to stress as well
is that this is not just the Mundelein Police Department
that we have seen here on site.
We know that the Major Crimes Task Force was out here.
We know that the Lake County Coroner's Office was out here.
I mean, this is a full-blown effort.
Not only that, we've seen police officers
from surrounding agencies as well, like Libertyville
come out here.
And here's a neighbor kind of just stopping by here.
It sounds like neighbors right now are waking up confused
and they're trying to figure out what's going on.
A lot of them telling me that they're shocked
to hear something like this could happen in their neighborhood.
Once again, still trying to figure out exactly what happened here.
All police are saying at this point is that it did appear
that these people were all family members
or that they were in some sort of domestic relationship.
They also say that two handguns were found at the scene
and all five of these people did have apparent gunshot wounds coming
from the police department.
So, you know, we'll be here on site,
of course, all throughout the morning.
We'll try to gather all the information we can.
But a big update here coming in from the Mundelein Police Department.
Natalie.
Yeah, some solid information.
Thank you so much, Say.
