What we know about the fatal Bolingbrook home invasion – Chicago Tribune

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Throughout the day Monday, cars slowed as they passed a darkened Bolingbrook home, where a scrap of police tape hung from a fence and a latex glove left out on the lawn offered clues of the tragedy that had struck inside the night before.

Police had already moved quickly to detain a 17-year-old suspect and clear the horrifying scene, but as word spread of the triple homicide that killed a man and two girls in the quiet suburban neighborhood Sunday night, neighbors and family shared their shock and devastation.

Read the full story from the Tribune’s Jake Sheridan, Richard Requena and Adriana Pérez.

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