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IN PHOTO: The grandmother of baby Angel Antonio cries on his casket during a burial service at All Saints Cemetery in Des Plaines, Illinois, United States, June 19, 2015. More than a year after a baby boy was found dead in a plastic shopping bag on a Chicago sidewalk, he was laid to rest in a tiny white casket covered with blue and white flowers. Rest in His Arms, an Illinois charity set up 10 years ago, has provided funerals for 25 children, mostly infants, abandoned or otherwise victims of crimes. Susan Walker, 46, started the group after a dead baby was discovered at a recycling plant in the northern suburbs. His parents were never found. Some 150 strangers turned up to the first funeral. If a baby is nameless, volunteers provide one - the boy at the Chicago service, whose teenage mother has been charged with murder, was Angel Antonio. Often neighbours come to pay their respects to the infant, as do first responders - at times, entire police departments attend the final farewell to an unknown child. REUTERS/Jim Young

On Sunday, 43-year-old Erin Agren, murdered her 59-year-old husband and her 17-month-old baby, before shooting herself. She was found wounded in her apartment at the Whatcom county in the Washington and was immediately rushed to St. Joseph’s Hospital, which is situated nearby.

The investigators claimed that she killed her husband and her toddler sometime before she shot herself but couldn’t confirmed the exact time frame. It has been reported that she had been lying wounded with the two bodies for at least two days. Meanwhile, online prison records showed that she was booked into jail Monday after her condition stabilised in the hospital.

According to News.com, a real estate agent had described the entire situation to the Whatcom County Sheriff Bill Elfo. He said that he went there to initiate the open house as the family had decided to sell their property off. Upon his arrival, however, he found Ms Agren calling out for help. "It’s certainly shocking and certainly very difficult,” the agent said.

Her husband, Michael D. Jordan, had worked at the Lummi Nation School for eight years, reported a spokesperson for the school. His colleagues expressed their grief over Jordan’s loss and said that the incident was really upsetting as well as shocking. The school praised him for his dedicated services in a Facebook post. The spokesperson reported that Ms Agren was also a teacher at the school when she met Jordan. However, she left after a year when the news of her pregnancy came around.

While none of them were tribal members, they still worked for the school. The director of the school said that people who voluntarily wanted to work with them were always welcome. Police reported that Ms Agren was apparently suffering from paranoid delusions, one of the side effects of postpartum depression. However, according to New York Daily News, reports of her illness haven’t been investigated yet.

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