A 2-year-old boy died Tuesday after police were called to a Frankfort, Illinois, home, where officers also found the child’s mother attempting to harm herself in a case that neighbors feared could be similar to Lindsay Clancy's.
Officers were dispatched shortly after 4 p.m. to the 22700 block of Brook Stone Court after receiving a report of an unresponsive child.
When they arrived, officers found the boy inside the home and began CPR before he was taken to a nearby hospital, where he later died.
Police said the boy’s mother was also found at the residence with injuries believed to have been self-inflicted. She was hospitalized with injuries that were not considered life-threatening.
The preliminary investigation points to a domestic-related homicide, police said. Authorities have not disclosed how the boy died, identified the mother or said whether she has been accused of a crime.
The Frankfort Fire Protection District told Lindsay Clancy situation in our neighborhood, in our community. You never think it's going to hit so close to home," she said, NBC Chicago reported. "And so yeah, that absolutely makes us think of that. And again, just more people I think are struggling than we realize and so we just need to be there for one another."
Pappas said the case was a reminder that a person could be struggling with a serious crisis behind closed doors without neighbors realizing it. She urged residents to check on one another and offer support.
Frankfort is about 36 miles southwest of Chicago.
The Frankfort Police Department asked anyone with information about the incident to contact the department at 815-469-9435.