Officials: Person of interest questioned after baby boy found dead inside home

One “person of interest” was being questioned by detectives after a baby boy was found dead inside a home with three other injured children who were taken to a hospital Saturday afternoon on the West Side.

Police were called to a home in the 500 block of South California Avenue, in the Lawndale neighborhood, for a well-being check, according to Officer Guadalupe Sanchez, a spokesman for the Chicago police.

A 5-month-old boy was found “unresponsive,” and officers called for an ambulance, but he was pronounced dead on the scene, Sanchez said. The boy, Solomon Greer, of the same block where he was found, was pronounced dead at 1:56 p.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office. An autopsy will be performed Sunday.

Three other children in the home — a 2-year-old girl, a 3-year-old boy and a 5-year-old boy — were taken to Stroger Hospital for “medical evaluation,” police said.

Chicago Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford said earlier that two other children in the home who were younger than age of 15 were taken to Stroger Hospital.

A law enforcement source said the children taken to Stroger had signs of violence to their body.

Sanchez said a person of interest was being questioned by detectives, but no charges have been announced.