Overview
- A large house fire in West Englewood on Wednesday killed four people, two adults later identified as 57-year-old Reginald Lee Wilson and 57-year-old Lisa Brown, and two children who family members said were foster kids named Royalty Rattler and Ja’Quan Rattler.
- City fire and police investigators are treating the blaze as a possible arson after officers said the fire appeared to start outside the home and they have not named any suspects.
- Authorities asked neighbors to review doorbell and security-camera footage from around midnight to 1 a.m. as detectives and Chicago Fire Department arson teams process the scene and the Cook County Medical Examiner continues victim identifications.
- Separately, three late-night shootings on the South and West sides wounded four people, including a 17-year-old taken to Mount Sinai in critical condition and two 18-year-olds treated in fair condition at Loretto and Loretto-linked facilities.
- Police made one arrest in the related West Side incidents when 34-year-old William Hall was charged after allegedly shooting two women in South Austin, and Area Two and Area Four detectives continue investigations into the other shootings with no arrests announced.