Police are questioning the mother of a four-year-old boy and her boyfriend tonight after the child was found earlier this afternoon beaten to death in a Gage Park neighborhood home, police said.
Officials were called around 2 p.m. to the scene located on the 5100 block of South Trumbull Avenue after receiving a call from a family member who was not at the home, according to police.
The child was dead when police arrived and appeared to have suffered blunt force trauma, possibly from being punched, police said.
Christopher Valdez, 4, was pronounced dead at 3:10 p.m. at Holy Cross Hospital, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s office.
It appeared that the child may have been dead for several hours before emergency crews found him, according to police.
--Deanese Williams-Harris and Cynthia Dizikes