Thursday, November 27, 2014

Family reacts to quintuple murder on E. 92nd

Police tell us they have interviewed a couple of people who are currently in jail and they are processing fingerprints and vehicles, but there are no suspects in the  horrific murders of five people on the East side on Friday night.

After something like this, how do you hold it together?

"I said 'Uncle where are you going?', he said 'I'm going home' and I said 'I'll see you later,'" said Tonia Anderson, who told 19 Action News about the last time she saw her uncle Friday, just hours before he was brutally murdered.

Her uncle, Lemon Bryant, was 60. His daughter Regina says he loved to cook and garden.

"I just cant even wrap my head around how all this happened," Regina said. "It's hurtful, I don't understand."

Nobody does. Friday night on E. 92nd, someone killed Bryant, his 18-year-old nephew Jario Taylor, 17-year-old Shaylona Williams, and Bryant's 41-year-old girlfriend Sherita Johnson, who was pregnant. The baby also died.

"We cannot make any sense of why somebody would want to do that to the five victims, they didn't hurt anybody," said friend John Anderson.

There was a vigil at MLK High School yesterday where Taylor and Williams were seniors. And a vigil last night in front of the home for all five victims.

The family is devastated.

"They took lives that didn't deserve to get taken if anybody knows anything please help us," Harper said.