Neighbors along West Lyndale Avenue were shaken up Wednesday following the discovery of the bodies of a 6-year-old boy and a 40-year-old man in a quiet, family-friendly Logan Square community.
Police conducting a well-being check found Samuel Cano, 6, and Josean D. Cano, 40, about 10:20 p.m. Tuesday in a bedroom of a home in the 3500 block of West Lyndale Avenue, according to police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office.
They had been there for an unknown amount of time and were in an “advanced state of decomposition,” police said.
Timothy Kleszczewski, who has lived on the block since 2005, said he was awoken last night to the sounds of an ambulance and fire truck but did not think much of it. He did not know the residents of the home personally but said there were often kids playing out in the yard — they always stopped to say hi to his 6-month-old puppy.
Kleszczewski, along with other neighbors, were shocked by the news and described the block as safe and quiet with lots of families living there.
“It’s upsetting,” said a man walking past who was running late for work and didn’t have time to give his name. “It’s a quiet, peaceful block.”
Both the boy and the man were pronounced dead at 10:40 p.m., the medical examiner’s office said. As of Wednesday evening. autopsy results were pending.
Earlier Wednesday afternoon, there was still yellow crime tape dangling off the staircase leading to the back entrance to the second floor. The front window of the second-floor unit was left wide open and a cat was walking around inside.
Area 5 detectives are conducting a death investigation.
