‘Nobody just goes to your house and starts killing people.’ Father struggles to understand attack that killed daughter and her mother

Chicago police work the scene where 5 people were shot, 2 fatally, in an apartment in the 7800 block of South Exchange Avenue in the South Shore neighborhood Monday. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

Omar Burgos worried about his transgender daughter after moving to Florida more than a decade ago and leaving the 20-year-old and her two siblings behind in Chicago.

Monday evening, he learned that Unique Banks and her mother, Alexsandra Olmo, had been gunned down in their South Shore apartment in an attack that left three other people badly wounded.