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.
A source told CBS Chicago that the woman was the mother of the children.
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