Overview

• The Cook County Medical Examiner identified the deceased as Drake Patton, 31, and her children, 1-year-old Jream Jaycee Washington and 6-year-old Wyatt Bryden Patton.
• Jream was recovered near 57th Street Beach around 11:23 a.m. on Sept. 13, with Drake and Wyatt found about three hours later near 63rd Street Beach; all were pronounced dead at the scene.
• Causes and manners of death are listed as pending, and detectives continue to investigate with no arrests reported.
• Chicago police say the deaths appear connected and may have stemmed from a domestic dispute, a characterization a maternal aunt has publicly disputed.
• The children’s father says he requested a welfare check the night before the recoveries, and relatives at a beach vigil highlighted Patton’s mental-health struggles and called for better support.