Glendale Heights police sergeant, wife killed in apparent murder-suicide in Homer Glen
A Glendale Heights police sergeant and his wife were killed in an apparent murder-suicide Sunday evening, according to police.
A Glendale Heights police sergeant and his wife were killed in an apparent murder-suicide Sunday evening, according to police.
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It's the third time in the last week a Chicago police officer has died of apparent suicide.
The officer is at least the seventh CPD officer to die from suicide this year.
Police were called to the home in the 2800 block of Acacia Terrace, near Port Clinton Road for a wellbeing check on a woman. When officers arrived, they were unable to make contact with anyone inside and forced their way in – only to find five people dead from an apparent quadruple murder suicide.
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Police said the officer, who was off duty at the time, died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
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No information on the officer was immediately available.
More than a dozen CPD officers have died by suicide in the last four years. Until now, families of those officers did not get any work-related death benefits.
It's a sobering fact – more than a dozen Chicago Police officers have died by suicide in the last four years. Right now, families of those CPD officers do not get any work-related death benefits.
It's a sobering fact – more than a dozen Chicago Police officers have died by suicide in the last four years. Right now, families of those CPD officers do not get any work-related death benefits. CBS 2 Political Investigator Dana Kozlov reports.
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