POLICE: MAN FATALLY SHOOTS 3 PEOPLE HE SAYS BROKE INTO EAST SIDE HOME
Detectives on Monday were seeking to verify the story of a South Side man who told police that the three people he shot dead inside his house were home invaders.
“We have noticed inconsistencies in his story … we’re pressing pretty hard,” police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi said Monday morning of investigators who were interrogating the man.
Under mounting pressure, the man hired an attorney Monday afternoon, Guglielmi said.
No charges have been filed against the man, 31, who has a valid Firearm Owner’s Identification card.
The shooting occurred in the basement of a home in the 10200 block of South Ewing in the East Side neighborhood, two blocks west of the Chicago Skyway.
Guglielmi could not immediately say what kind of gun police recovered from the man. Asked if the alleged intruders were also armed, he replied: “We only recovered one weapon.”
Police were investigating the shooting as self- defense. Area South detectives were conducting a homicide investigation.
All three suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the body at 5: 32 p. m. in the 10200 block of South Ewing, according to Chicago Police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
One of those killed was identified as Narcisco J. Ledesman, 22. The names of the others — a 17- year- old boy and a 24- year- old woman— have not been released by the medical examiner’s office, pending notification of family.
Ald. Susan Sadlowski Garza’s 10th Ward office is about three blocks south of the home where the shooting occurred.
“Right now, they’re calling it self- defense,” she said, noting that she’d received details about the shooting from the commander of the 4th District police station.
The shooting happened within a block of St. Francis de Sales High School and steps away from 103rd and Ewing, where a bus picks up students who attend Catholic schools in other parts of the city, according to one neighborhood resident.