JOLIET, Ill. (CBS) – Seven relatives were killed in a Joliet murder spree three weeks ago.
The pain of losing so many at once rocked the Joliet neighborhood. CBS 2 spoke with a family member to learn more about those they lost.
It was a cold day last month when the unimaginable happened.
Gray : “How do you move forward with losing seven family members all at once? To even find some sort of normalcy?”
Cara Esters : “Moment by moment.”
More than two weeks after the tragedy, the pain of losing so many in her family still lingered for Cara Esters.
“I thought losing our mother was the most difficult thing I’ve ever experienced because I was younger, but this,” she said.
She added she “lost all my siblings in fell swoop and I lost most of my nieces and nephews in one fell swoop.”
Cara’s family members were found dead in two homes in the 2200 block of West Acres. A week after the shootings, family and friends gathered to remember each lost soul.