Three men suspected the fatal stabbing of two men in an apartment of Edgewater were part of a "team" that had ties to drug trafficking organizations--and may be responsible for mass murder--drug police revealed today.
Suspected ringleader comes crew, Arturo Ibarra, 37, was shot and killed by police during a chase vehicle, immediately after the stabbing of two victims were discovered inside the apartment on the fourth floor in the 5800 block of North Winthrop Avenue, police said. Two other crew members were taken into police custody, pending criminal charges that had not been announced as of early afternoon on Sunday.
The victims who died the Winthrop had their throats slit after setting apparently a drug deal with Ibarra and the other two suspects on Saturday, said a source in law enforcement.
Ibarra and two other suspects had met with those victims in at least one other occasion. The suspects were a "substantial" money in their possession Saturday when the police got their, said the source.
The source added that there were times when the trio would have established drug deals with buyers who knew, and when were involved large sums of money, the trio would steal and kill buyers."This is a crew of individuals that we have been watching for some time," Nick Roti, head of the organized crime Division of the Chicago police said reporters in a press conference today at the police headquarters, 3510 s. Michigan Ave.
Police are investigating whether the Group was involved in drug mass murders, including four men found dead in a garage in West Lawn last September and three men found bound and gagged in a car on 2300 block of West 36th Street in McKinley Park last April, said a source in law enforcement.
The trio has worked for a company, but believe even sold drugs and even robbed and killed some of their customers, said the source.
Roti said that the Police Department "suspect" the three men were involved in other murders throughout the city.
When asked for a possible motive behind the killings of Saturday, Roti said as the group worked in the drug trade "and had no problems by killing people. Also called Roti Ibarra a "bad guy."Ibarra had many previous arrests with both misdemeanor and felony conviction for burglary, according to Court records.
When the Tribune called a phone number in address of Ibarra listed on Sunday morning, the person that answered the telephone has declined to comment.
Without identifying their name, Roti said the three victims were all involved in drug dealing and that the two victims died--that were linked to one another--lived in a building where they were killed. No victim had been positively identified as of early afternoon on Sunday.
The third person from Winthrop was in critical condition at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center. No new condition was available today.
Autopsies determined that Ibarra died of multiple gunshot wounds to the head, while the two victims who both died from his wounds "engraved" on their neck, according to the Office of the Cook County medical examiner. All three deaths were homicides rigate.
Gang crimes were on surveillance officers on Winthrop while looking in a murder, narcotics related Saturday, when they saw a group of people running from the building, just before a call to "shot" came from about 5: 30 p.m., police said.
As a marked police car attempted to stop the suspect fleeing in a vehicle that witnesses later described as a pickup truck, suspects rammed the squad car and shot him to the police, injuring an officer in the second leg to a police statement.
During a brief chase suspects continued to fire, police, before the vehicle was stopped and police responded to the fire, killing a suspect and two others taking into custody, police said.
The police officer who was shot is 39, has 12 years of age on the strength and currently assigned drive Gang investigations, police said. He was taken to St. Francis Hospital of Evanston in good condition; Roti official today said the "good".
"He is a tough guy," said Roti.
Ibarra, of Troy block of South Street, 4500 was pronounced dead at St. Francis Hospital in Evanston, according to the spokesman of the examiner of a doctor.
Annie Sweeney and William Lee has contributed to this report
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