TEEN MOM DIES
An 18-year-old mother was killed and her 2-month-old son critically injured when her boyfriend stabbed them during a domestic quarrel in an apartment in the city's Woodlawn community, Chicago police said.
The boyfriend turned himself in to police after fleeing from the scene of the stabbings; charges were pending this morning. The woman was identified as Tanisha Edwards of the 6700 block of South Evans Avenue, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
During an argument Monday evening with his girlfriend at the Evans address, the man grabbed the toddler, threw him to the floor and then stabbed him in the neck, police said.
He then stabbed Edwards multiple times in the chest and head, police said.
She later died at Stroger Hospital. Her son remained in critical condition at Comer Children's Hospital with a laceration to his neck.
Authorities discovered mother and child at about 6:15 p.m. Monday inside a third-floor apartment at the Evans address. The woman's brother had alerted neighbors to the attack, yelling that his sister's boyfriend was "killing her," a police source said.
When the neighbor entered the home, he saw the boyfriend with a knife in his hand stabbing the woman. When the neighbor cried for help, the boyfriend ran from the home.
--William Lee and Kristina Miller
The boyfriend turned himself in to police after fleeing from the scene of the stabbings; charges were pending this morning. The woman was identified as Tanisha Edwards of the 6700 block of South Evans Avenue, according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
During an argument Monday evening with his girlfriend at the Evans address, the man grabbed the toddler, threw him to the floor and then stabbed him in the neck, police said.
He then stabbed Edwards multiple times in the chest and head, police said.
She later died at Stroger Hospital. Her son remained in critical condition at Comer Children's Hospital with a laceration to his neck.
Authorities discovered mother and child at about 6:15 p.m. Monday inside a third-floor apartment at the Evans address. The woman's brother had alerted neighbors to the attack, yelling that his sister's boyfriend was "killing her," a police source said.
When the neighbor entered the home, he saw the boyfriend with a knife in his hand stabbing the woman. When the neighbor cried for help, the boyfriend ran from the home.
--William Lee and Kristina Miller
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