Chicago 7-Year-Old Fatally Stabbed

A woman fatally stabbed 7-year-old Edi Mari Hernandez Chacon in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood on Saturday. Police said the woman approached the child on a sidewalk near South Cottage Grove Avenue shortly before noon and stabbed her multiple times in the back with a sharp object. Edi Mari had been walking hand-in-hand with her older sister, and police said the attacker and child were not known to each other. She was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The medical examiner classified her death as a homicide caused by multiple stab wounds. Bystanders detained the suspect until police arrived; she remains in police custody. Police had not announced charges, and the motive remained unknown.