Police are questioning a person of interest in the death of a 3-year-old girl on the Northwest Side of Chicago.
Officers found the girl dead inside her home in the 3300 block of North Natchez Avenue about 8:30 p.m. Sunday, police said. She was pronounced dead on the scene, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office, which has not yet released the girl's name.
The child appeared to have died from blunt force trauma to the head, police said, citing preliminary information.
The circumstances of the death have not been released, but police remained on the scene past 1 a.m. today. As detectives holding clipboards stood outside a white multifamily home on the block, a forensic investigator shot video and photographs both inside and outside the home.
Several police vehicles remained parked in the middle of Natchez for hours, blocking traffic on a street so narrow that overlapping branches from trees on both sides form a canopy in places.
The scene drew the attention of several groups of neighbors who gathered on the sidewalk and a nearby porch to watch.
Police said Area North detectives are interviewing a person of interest as they conduct a homicide investigation.
A police supervisor on the scene declined to comment.
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