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The infant boy police say wasripped from his mother’s wombafter she was strangled to death has no brain function, according to the slain woman’s family members.
Fox 32 reportsthe family has no plan to take the boy — named Yavani Yadiel Lopez — off life support and is holding out hope he will survive.
Three people are in custody and charges are pending, the spokeswoman says, but she did not confirm whether the 46-year-old woman who called 911 was one of those people.
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The Chicago Police Department’s chief spokesman, Anthony Guglielmi,told theChicago Tribune, “We believe all of them played some role in this unspeakable act of violence.”
The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office confirms to PEOPLE that Ochoa-Lopez’s death was a homicide, and that the cause of death was ligature strangulation.
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TheChicago Tribunepreviously reported that Ochoa-Lopez was last seen leaving Latino Youth Alternative High School. She is married and has a 3-year-old son she was supposed to pick up from day care on the day she disappeared.
“She was giving clothes away, supposedly under the pretense that her daughters had been given clothes and they had all these extra boy clothes. That’s the false pretenses that we believe led [Ochoa-Lopez] to that house,” Garcia said.
source: people.com
