Boys 16 and 17 found shot to death in Far South Side field: 'They're killing the children'

CHICAGO - Something compelled Adrienne Lando to stay outside and watch police working a scene in her Far South Side neighborhood, even before she learned that two teen boys had been found shot dead in the field or that she'd once provided a home to one of them.

She usually wouldn't stay out so late. Her daughter told her to go to sleep. But she remained standing on the sidewalk south of the field, looking across the yellow crime tape police had stretched across her block.

"I couldn't go in the house for some reason," Lando said. "And then to find out it's someone that you knew, someone that stayed in your house, slept in your bed,