LAKE VILLA, Ill. (WLS) Lake Villa police said a preliminary investigation into the deaths of a 36-year-old man and 9-year-old girl has found the girl was killed by her father in a murder-suicide.
Lake Villa police said officers were sent to a home in the 100-block of Briar Ridge Lane Thursday afternoon to check on the well-being of a child. The girl s mother had called police to check on her daughter, who had been reported absent from school.
Police said the girl s mother and father are separated, and share custody of their daughter. Wednesday the mother agreed to let her daughter stay with her father overnight. When the girl did not go to school the next day, the mother tried to contact the father but was not successful.
A north suburban Lake Villa man shot and killed his 9-year-old daughter before taking his own life, according to the Lake County Major Crime Task Force.
Father, 36, stabs his nine-year-old daughter to death before killing himself in murder-suicide in Illinois
Police in Lake Villa, Illinois, found a nine-year-old girl and her 36-year-old father dead from murder-suicide on Thursday
Officials revealed the child suffered from sharp-force wounds at the hands of her father, who then killed himself
Girl s mother agreed to let her stay with her father overnight on Wednesday; the parents live separately but share custody of the child
When mother learned the girl had not been in school and she could not reach the father, she asked police to perform welfare check