UPDATED: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 --- 5:40 p.m.

We are learning more about the victims from NBC affiliate WMAQ in Chicago.

They say family and friends are confirming James Larry as the shooter.

They say he shot his own mother, his son, his girlfriend, two nieces and a nephew.

They say he also shot at a 12-year-old niece as she ran for help but missed.

Those dead are 16-year-old Keyshai Fields who was pregnant and 3-year-old Kaleisha Larry who are believed to have been the suspects nieces, a 7-month-old believed to be the suspects own son and a pregnant 19-year-old believed to have been his girlfriend from Madison

Family members say a 13-year-old nephew is in stable condition and Larry's mother is fighting for her life at a Chicago hospital.

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UPDATED: Wednesday, April 14, 2010 --- 4:20 p.m.REPORTER: Chris Woodard

A Madison man is in custody after neighbors say he followed a woman to Chicago and killed her and three children.

It appears this tragedy began a few days ago right here in Madison and ended in Chicago with six people shot, four of them dead.

Several Chicago media sources are identifying 32-year-old James Larry as the shooter.

Larry's former neighbors at a Flower Lane apartment in Madison say he used to live there with a woman downstairs but had recently moved out.

This morning one neighbor says Chicago investigators knocked on her door and told her Larry followed the woman to Chicago after a domestic fight in Madison.

They wanted to know if anyone in the building knew anything about a history of domestic violence. Two neighbors tell us they often heard loud yelling but were too scared to investigate any further.

Chicago Police are not releasing a name of the shooter but say a seven month old baby boy, a three-year-old girl, a 16-year-old girl and a woman believed to be the shooter's wife or girlfriend were killed.

Chicago Police Commander John Kupczyk says, "There were two DOA victims found in each bedroom, a woman and a child. Two other witnesses were located and with the help of the witnesses we identified a suspect. "

Chicago Police say two other people were taken from the home with critical injuries.

Madison Police say they have not been contacted about the incident.

A person close to this investigation tells NBC Larry told police he heard voices in his head and Allah told him to do it.

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UPDATED Wednesday, April 14, 2010---2:17 p.m.

CHICAGO (AP) -- A person close to the investigation of a shooting in Chicago that left a woman and three children dead says the gunman told police that he committed the crime after hearing voices telling him to kill his family.

The person also says the gunman chased a 12-year-old girl from the house early Wednesday, shot at her and missed. The girl later alerted police about what had happened.

The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the investigation was ongoing and the person was not authorized to release the information.

Police say the dead include a 7-month-old boy, a 3-year-old girl and a 16-year-old girl. Police say they are related to the gunman, but authorities haven't given any details.

Police say the man is in custody.

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UPDATED Wednesday, April 14, 2010---10:52 a.m.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Chicago police say a man they believe shot and killed four people -- three of them children -- and wounded two others is in custody.

Police spokesman Roderick Drew would not identify the suspect but says he's being questioned by detectives and that officers have recovered a weapon at the scene.

Drew says police believe the shootings occurred in a domestic situation and that the suspect is related to the victims.

Police say the shootings happened at about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday in a home in southwest Chicago.

Those killed were a 7-month-old boy, a 3-year-old girl, a 16-year-old girl and a woman. Officials at Advocate Christ Hospital in Oak Lawn say a 13-year-old victim is in fair condition while an adult woman is in critical condition.

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Posted Wednesday, April 14, 2010---9:40 a.m.

Madison.com is reporting that a Madison man has been arrested in connection with a quadruple murder in Chicago. The 32-year-old man is believed to be a relative of the victims.

The shooting was reported just before 4:30 this morning on South Mozart Drive on the city's southwest side. The suspect was taken into custody a short distance away after he abandoned his car.

Killed were a woman, a 7-month-old boy, a 3-year-old girl and a 16-year-old girl. Two adults, a man and a woman, were critically injured and taken to a local hospital.

Police sources say a 12-year-old boy who survived the shooting called 911. Another person also survived.

Stay with NBC15.com, NBC 15 News at 11, 4, 5 and 6 for the latest updates on this story.

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This is good news if it actually is adhered to. But decriminalization options have been available for decades. The next question is, will this apply to the Lankford case? 6.5 alleged joints is certainly much less than 25 grams. It's too bad that his underlying message seems to be that if he had the funds to hire 8 more prosecutors, he'd use them to crack down on pot. Why not do it because of the obvious reason -- that cannabis prohibition is not just stupid and wasteful, but a counterproductive fraud?

Dane Co. District Attorney Won't Prosecute Some Marijuana Cases
5:27 PM Mar 1, 2007
Reporter: Zac Schultz
Email Address: zschultz@nbc15.com

Dane County: "There's been some adjustment in our policies." Dane County District Attorney Brian Blanchard knows the state defines possession of marijuana as a crime. But from now on his office won't be treating it like one. "We're simply going more wholesale to saying 25 grams or less of possession of marijuana-not a crime."

Blanchard isn't trying to decriminalize marijuana. He simply doesn't have the staff to prosecute minor possession cases. "We're about to have the same number of prosecutors in this office that we had in 1988."

A recent analysis by the state says Dane County needs eight more prosecutors to keep up with a growing caseload.

Blanchard says he has to prioritize. "We struggle to staff child abuse cases, when it comes to something like marijuana possession we are not going to be handling it as aggressively as we could."

This doesn't mean marijuana possession is legal in Dane County. But instead of facing 6 months in jail and a $1,000 fine, criminals are looking at a citation.

"I don't like it. I'll be honest, I don't like it," says Town of Madison Police Chief Scott Gregory. He says he won't have his officers change anything. "Our job as a law enforcement agency is to make those arrests when we have probable cause and let the District Attorney's Office do what they believe is best."

If the D.A.'s office rejects the case, the Town of Madison could write a municipal citation.

The Sheriff's Department won't even bother referring the cases to the D.A. "We'll be abiding by the request of District Attorney Brian Blanchard and issuing a county ordinance citation," says Sheriff Dave Mahoney.

Both Chief Gregory and Sheriff Mahoney say they understand the staffing problems in the D.A.'s office. "It's frustrating, but it's budgets," says Gregory.