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Family Of Gage Park Murder Victims Preparing Final Goodbye

(CBS) -- The father of the youngest victims in the Gage Park killings arrives in Chicago Wednesday night and we're getting a glimpse of the family's hometown in Mexico, where some of them will be buried.

Nearly a week after the killings, police report progress in their investigation, but still aren't giving a motive. That as a grieving family- both here, and in Mexico prepares to say their final goodbyes.

TV Azteca visited the hometown of the eldest victims, who will be buried in Guanajuato. Relatives say Noe and Rosa Martinez had planned to move back this year, now that their grandchildren were growing up.

One of the victim's brothers says, "The kids were very little, they just stayed over there, but they were going to return."

The news story, posted on the Little Village Facebook page, has more than 200,000 views.

Funerals for the six killed in their family home in Gage Park, will take place in Chicago this Sunday. They'll be paid for out of an Illinois victim's fund, which will also pay to send the bodies back to Mexico for burial.

Officials at the Mexican Consulate in Chicago say they're helping care for relatives who have come to Chicago to mourn.

"This has been devastating for the family, especially for the father," said Marcelino Miranda with the Mexican Consulate in Chicago. "He will be here, fortunately, for the funeral services that are going to take place at the weekend."

The father plans to take the sole survivor of the tragedy with him. Even the dog is now being looked after.

"We're going to help the father because the father wants to take it to Mexico," Miranda said. "We're helping also with that."

The father plans to bury his wife and children in the Mexican state of Morelos. The Chicago service will take place this Sunday at St. Gall at 5:30. The funeral follows at 7.

Chicago Police Acting Superintendent John Escalante said the investigation will take time, but the fact that two of the six victims were children will drive it forward.

No murder weapon was recovered. While a gun was recovered in the home, it was not used in the murders.

Only one of the victims was shot. Maria Herminia Martinez, 32, suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Her two sons – 10-year-old Alexis Cruz and 13-year-old Leonardo Cruz – and her father, 62-year-old Noe Martinez Sr., died of stab wounds. Her mother, 58-year-old Rosaura Martinez, and her brother, 38-year-old Noe Martinez Jr., were stabbed and suffered "blunt force" injuries.

All six deaths were ruled homicides.

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