Services today for 3 of 5 victims in murder-suicide

Services are being held today for three of the five people killed in a murder-suicide in a small farming town southwest of Kankakee.

Last Friday afternoon, Sara McMeen, 30, shot and killed her boyfriend, Daniel Warren, 29, and her three children: 8-year-old Skyler Lemke, 7-year-old Ian Lemke and 10-month-old Maggie Warren. She then shot herself, authorities say.

Visitation for McMeen will be held at 10 a.m. today at Hager Memorial Home, 201 W. Mazon Ave. in Dwight. A funeral service will follow at noon.

Visitation for Warren and his daughter, Maggie, will be held from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at Fruland Funeral Home, 121 W. Jefferson St. in Morris. The funeral will be held at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

Services for Ian and Skyler will be from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday in Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 325 E. Mazon Ave., Dwight. A family spokesman says the visitation will be open to the public but the funeral afterward will be open only to family and friends.

          5 dead, 12 wounded in attacks across Chicago

 Full News :  Five people were killed and at least 12 other people wounded in shootings Saturday night and Sunday morning across the city.

Police were questioning two suspects after Deering District officers were able to chase down the occupants of a car who fired on three people, killing a 24-year-old man, about 1:50 a.m. on the 5300 block of South Loomis Boulevard in the Back of the Yards neighborhood.

The 24-year-old who died was shot multiple times and taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where he was declared dead. A 24-year-old man and a 22-year-old man were being treated in serious condition at John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, police said.

The victims were shot on the street, and Deering District officers near 53rd and Loomis heard the shots and found the victims shot, said Chicago Police Department News Affairs Officer John Mirabelli.

The officers radioed for ambulances, then talked to the victims about who shot them and got a description of their attackers. The officers broadcast a description of a silver sedan that had fled west toward Ashland Avenue to other officers, and other Deering officers were able to locate the car. A Deering sergeant was then able to stop the car in an alley near 55th and Elizabeth streets, Mirabelli said.

One of the suspects was caught after a foot chase through gangways and yards, and the other was located and caught in a nearby vacant home, Mirabelli said.

Police have impounded the car and found a gun that may have been used in the shootings.

The evening attacks follow the fatal shooting of a 6-year-old girl and the wounding of four other people in Chicago within an hour Saturday afternoon, and 16 shootings, including the slaying of a 42-year-old man, overnight Friday and early Saturday morning.

In other shootings:

A 36-year-old man was killed on the 7500 block of South Wolcott Avenue in the Gresham neighborhood about 1:20 a.m., police said. He was at a party on the block, in a back yard, when someone drove by and opened fire, police said. Police said the man, identified as Bert Lindsey of the 7600 block of South Winchester Avenue, didn't have a criminal history. He was pronounced dead at Advocate Christ Medical Center about 2:15 a.m., a spokeswoman for the Cook County medical examiner's office said.

A 24-year-old man was found dead in a car at the University of Chicago Medical Center about 10:30 p.m., according to authorities. He's believed to have been shot in the back in the 6300 block of South Ellis Avenue in the Woodlawn neighborhood and was driven to the hospital, police said.A spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office identified him as Jeremy Anthony and said he lived about a block south from where he was shot.

Someone standing in the street shot him while he was sitting on the passenger side of the car's backseat, police said. The car's driver took him to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

A 22-year-old man was killed in the East Chatham neighborhood Saturday evening. He was identified as Vincent Fitts, of the 4100 block of West Cermak Road, by a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office.