CHICAGO (AP) — The Cook County medical examiner’s office says the deaths last year of two boys in their home on Chicago’s South Side were homicides.
The bodies of 27-year-old Latoya Jackson and her children, 11-year-old Andrew Simms Jr., 10-year-old Kameron Simms and 5-year-old Kantrell Williams, were found on July 18. Authorities were directed to the home in the Chatham neighborhood by neighbors complaining about the smell coming from the building.
An autopsy shortly after the bodies were found determined Jackson was strangled.
The medical examiner’s office on Tuesday said the 11-year-old and the 10-year-old died of “probable inhalation of products of combustion” in a house fire. The 10-year-old also suffered “carbon monoxide toxicity.” Authorities previously determined the 5-year-old suffered the same fate.
