Crime & Safety

2 Children Found Stabbed to Death in Naperville Home

Police are questioning a "person of interest" after they were called to do a wellbeing check Tuesday night.

Two children were found stabbed to death Tuesday night during a wellbeing check at a townhouse on the 800 block of Quin Court in Naperville, police said. 

Police have a person of interest in custody and charges are possibly forthcoming, according to a media release. The Chicago Tribune reports that the women being questioned is the mother of one of the children and was babysitting the other. One child was 5-years-old and the other was 7 or 8, the Tribune reports. The woman is in her 40s, according to ABC 7

Naperville police do not believe any other suspects at large, according to the media release.

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