Chicago man accused of killing couple, stabbing woman in Gage Park
A Chicago man was charged with killing a couple and stabbing a woman at a nearby bar in Gage Park on the Southwest Side.
Robert Romo, 57, was charged with first degree murder, attempted murder and aggravated battery, Chicago police said.
Officers responded to calls of a person shot just before 10 p.m. Sunday at an apartment in the 5300 block of South Kedzie Avenue, Chicago police said.
The back door of the apartment was open, and the bodies of Richard M. Romo, 63, and Rita Chavez, 64, were found inside, police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said.
Autopsies Monday determined that both died of multiple gunshot wounds and stabbing injuries and were dead at the scene, according to police and the medical examiner’s office. Their deaths were ruled homicides.
It was unclear if the Romos were related.
According to a law enforcement source, about five minutes later, an allegedly intoxicated Romo suspected of killing Romo and Chavez walked across the street to the Just One More sports bar at 5332 S. Kedzie Ave. and allegedly tried to stab a 37-year-old bouncer.
After getting inside, Romo allegedly tried to shoot a bar patron, but his gun jammed. He then went into the women’s restroom, where he allegedly stabbed a woman multiple times, the source said.
She was taken to Mount Sinai Hospital, where she was listed in good condition, officials said.
Minutes after the attacks, Romo was tased by officers outside the bar as he held a knife in one hand and the gun in the other, the source said.
Romo, of the Clearning neighborhood, was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday.