STNG news reports firefighters responded to a blaze in the Rogers Park neighborhood Wednesday night found a man dead inside the building, fire officials said. The fire started about 10:20 p.m. in the 2400 block of W. Lunt Ave., according to Rogers Park District police. Fire Media Affairs Director Larry Langford said the fire was a working fire and was never elevated to a still-and-box alarm.
A body was discovered in a second-floor apartment. Police News Affairs Officer Hector Alfaro said firefighters discovered the body after the fire was extinguished. The Cook County Medical Examiner’s office identified the man as 39-year-old Gerald Bucknor, of Chicago. Langford said Bucknor was found on the couch. "Obviously he had been dead for a while," Langford said.
Police on the scene said the death could be a homicide because accelerants were found on the Bucknor’s body and in the apartment. The police Bomb & Arson Section was sent to the scene. A source said witnesses overheard a loud noise, or “boom,” and saw three men running from the building. An individual connected to the building said the Bucknor moved in about a month ago.
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MURDER, MURDER, MURDER!!!! This is blatant that he was a victim of a cover up. Whoever did it thought that would burn all the evidence but you better believe that they will find the most smallest unnoticeable piece of evidence to convict the bastards!!!!!!!! And I hope they really burn in HELLL
Autopsy: Man found dead in fire was strangled
September 13, 2007
FROM STNG WIRE REPORTS
A man found dead on the scene of a suspicious fire Wednesday night in the North Side Rogers Park neighborhood was strangled, a Thursday autopsy revealed.
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I will light a candle this week on behalf of Gerald Bucknor's life.
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