A 7-year-old girl died after a woman approached her on a Chicago sidewalk on Saturday, 3 October 2026, and stabbed her multiple times in the back, police said. Witnesses pursued the woman from the scene, and one bystander struck her, causing her to lose consciousness, a witness told CWBChicago. Police have not confirmed that account.
A 48-year-old woman, according to the same report, was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, police said, before being placed in custody. No charges had been announced, and she had not been publicly identified.
