Father shoots and kills 10-year-old twins before taking his own life in apparent murder-suicide
A father fatally shot his twin 10-year-old children with a shotgun and then turned the gun on himself in a murder-suicide Monday in West Rogers Park on the North Side.
On Monday, a Chicago-based man fatally shot his twin 10-year-old children before killing himself in an apparent murder-suicide, law enforcement authorities reported.
According to local TV stations like the Chicago Sun-Times and WBBM, Derrick Sanders, 45, was found by the police lying dead in the hallway of his West Rogers Park apartment on Monday morning. He had turned a shotgun to his face and killed himself.
Upon entering his residence, authorities found the lifeless bodies of his son and daughter, who were later identified as Addison and Mason Sanders, per the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office. Both children had sustained fatal wounds in the back of their heads.