WGN-TV video showing the burnt out van and Boardwalk Condominium neighborhood.
The identities of the man who was found shot and dead in a burning van, and his apparent victims were released by the Cook County medical examiner’s office after an autopsy today. Kenneth Johnson, 47, apparently killed his wife, Nanette Johnson, 48, shooting her multiple times; and killed his stepson, Kenneth L. Sova, 24, shooting him multiple times.
Kenneth Johnson’s cause of death was determined to be a gunshot wound to the head and thermal injuries from lighting a fire to a minivan while sitting inside the minivan, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office autopsy results today. Nanette Johnson, Kenneth Johnson’s wife, and Kenneth L. Sova, his stepson, both died from multiple gunshot wounds in homicides that apparently occurred inside a basement condominium.
Elk Grove Village police and firefighter/paramedics responded about 7:30 a.m. Friday to a report of gunshots in a basement level of units of Boardwalk Condominium building, northwest of Arlington Heights Road and Biesterfield in Elk Grove Village.
When police responded to the area, they noticed a van in the middle of a soccer field across the street. As they approached the van, a man inside the van shot himself, and the van became fully involved in flames. Police and firefighter/paramedics discovered the burning van with a body of the man and a rifle inside. Police forcibly entered the condo unit where the gunshots were heard, and discovered a man and woman shot, dead. All three of the deceased are adults.
Elk Grove Village police are still investigating.
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