A mother allegedly stabbed three of her children, killing one of them, and then set their home on fire on the morning of the Fourth of July.
The 45-year-old woman is accused of using a knife to stab her kids inside the Northwest Side of Chicago on Friday morning, according to police.
Police responded to a call of a person with a knife in the Logan Square neighborhood shortly before 9.15am on Friday.
‘I got this child yelling for help out the basement window,’ said a 911 caller, according to WLS.
‘We’re trying to get her out of the window. I do see blood.
‘She’s covered in blood, got the knife away from her.’
A four-year old boy was found dead, and seven others including two children were hospitalized, police said.
The woman was the mother of the children, a source told CBS Chicago.
A 13-year-old girl was stabbed in the chest, back and face and was in critical condition, and a 10-year-old boy was knifed in the arm and in serious condition.
In addition, a 31-year-old woman and a 34-year-old man in a home next door suffered smoke inhalation. The fire reportedly jumped to their home and damaged the roof.
The victims were transported to Stroger Hospital.
Police said the suspect is in custody. Sources told WLS that she was taken to Community First Hospital in unknown condition.
Neighbors said sirens sounded early on the Fourth of July.
‘It’s sad, because today is a day of celebration. It’s sad,’ a neighbor, Juan Miranda, told the TV station on Friday.
‘Something like this has never happened in the neighborhood. It’s sad. It should have never happened to this family.’
Photos showed both homes, on the 3600 block of West Palmer Street, with busted windows.
It happened nearly three years after a Georgia mother allegedly killed her 20-month-old son and disposed of his remains in the garbage and claimed to police that it was stinky shrimp pasta.
