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Six people were found dead inside a home in the Gage Park Neighborhood in Chicago on Thursday. USA TODAY
Chicago police collect evidence at a home where six people were found slain on the city's Southwest Side on February 4, 2016 in Chicago, Illinois. Last month Chicago recorded 51 homicides, the highest toll for the month since at least 2000.(Photo: Scott Olson, Getty Images)
CHICAGO — Police said Friday<span style="color: Red;">*</span>there were no signs of forced entry into a home where six people<span style="color: Red;">*</span>were found slain<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a day earlier in what one officer on the scene called a "bloody mess."
Chief of Detectives Eugene Roy said the victims, who investigators believe are from the same family, died of blunt trauma, but did not detail the manner of death.
One of the first officers to arrive at the brick bungalow on the city's Southwest Side<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said at least one of the victims appeared to be stabbed to death and described a gruesome<span style="color: Red;">*</span>crime scene,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>according to a recording of police radio traffic of the incident.
"Send a sarge over here," the officer tells the dispatcher. "This is a bloody mess."
The same officer reported a few seconds later<span style="color: Red;">*</span>that it appeared one of the victims, an older woman, had been stabbed multiple times.
The medical examiner was expected to conduct<span style="color: Red;">*</span>autopsies of the victims later Friday.
"This is a complex investigation," Roy said. "We are working meticulously."
Police discovered the bodies shortly after 1 p.m.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Thursday after receiving a phone call from a concerned co-worker that someone who lived in the house had not shown up for work for two days. Police went to the house to conduct a well-being check and officers discovered<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the bodies of four adults and two children, ages 10 and 13,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>laying throughout the house. (Police originally said the dead were five adults and one child.)
Family of the victims identified the dead<span style="color: Red;">*</span>as Rosa Hernandez and Noe Martinez, in their 60s; their adult son Noe Martinez Jr.;<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Herminia Martinez,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and her two sons, Alexis and Leonardo, the Chicago Tribune reported.
Six people lived in the home — a couple, their adult son, their daughter and the daughter’s two children, the Associated Press reports.
“They were a normal family. Everything was fine,” Noemi Martinez, 29, a relative who lives in Dallas told the AP.
Martinez said the father worked at a factory in Chicago and the mother was a housewife. They were originally from the Mexican state of Guanajuato and had lived in Chicago for about a decade, Martinez said..
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Chicago records 51 homicides in January, highest toll since 2000
Roy said the door to the house was locked when officers arrived on the scene, and the home had not been ransacked nor were the victims bound.
Police have not offered a possible motive for the apparent homicides, and stress<span style="color: Red;">*</span>they are in the early stages of the investigation.
Interim Superintendent John Escalante said Thursday that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>patrols were beefed up in the area surrounding the home in the city's Gage Park neighborhood. But he added he did not believe there was a wider threat to the community.
The incident comes after the nation's third largest city recorded 51 homicides in January, the highest toll for the month since at least 2000.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Gang conflicts and retaliatory violence drove the surge<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in homicides, police said.
In addition to the jump in killings, the police department said it recorded 241<span style="color: Red;">*</span>shooting incidents<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in January, more than double the 119 incidents recorded<span style="color: Red;">*</span>last January.
Follow USA TODAY Chicago correspondent<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Aamer Madhani on Twitter:<span style="color: Red;">*</span>AamerISmad
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