Overview
- Will County deputies, responding to a welfare check early Monday, found Jacob Lambert, 32, and his parents, Stacy, 54, and Patrick Forde, 55, shot to death at their Crete Township home after neighbors reported hearing gunfire.
- The Will County Sheriff's Office says 30-year-old Jenna Strouble was arrested in St. John, Indiana, and has been charged with nine counts of first-degree murder.
- Investigators report she made incriminating statements, and a firearm seized from her residence matched the weapon used at the scene.
- Authorities describe the case as a domestic, targeted incident and say Strouble had an on-and-off relationship with Lambert and they share children.
- Strouble remains in an Indiana jail awaiting extradition to Illinois, while autopsy findings are pending final toxicology and police reports.