Police said it appears all three had been overcome by carbon monoxide from a generator inside the home and that if appeared to be intentional.
A father and his 10-year-old son are dead, and his 6-year-old daughter is in the hospital, after police say it appears he poisoned them at his home in northwest suburban Inverness.
The children's mother and father are estranged. Police said she went to the home in Inverness on Sunday around 4:30 p.m., after the father did not return the young boy and girl at the scheduled time after visitation. She found them all unconscious in the home in the 2200 block of Palatine Road. Police said they believe 41-year-old Woo Chang intentionally left a generator on inside the home, and he and the two children were overcome by carbon monoxide. He and their son, 10-year-old Austin Chang, were pronounced dead at the scene. Autopsies are scheduled for Monday. The couple's 6-year-old daughter was taken to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital.
RIGHT NOW: Inverness Police tell me a father intentionally placed generator inside home, killing himself and 10yr old son. 6 yr old daughter is fighting for life at hospital. Mother found them all unconscious in home when he did not return children after visitation.
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