A man has been charged in a fatal stabbing during a robbery in the Loop last week.
Anthony Rawls, 28, and another man approached Michael Byrnes, 41, the night of Sept. 6 in the 400 block of South LaSalle Street as he was heading home from work and tried to take his belongings, Chicago police said.
The two then kicked, punched and stabbed Byrnes several times, according to police. Byrnes was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where he died.
Rawls has been charged with two counts of murder and one count of armed robbery, Police Supt. David Brown said in a news conference Wednesday morning.
Police are trying to find the second attacker, Brown said. Rawls was scheduled to appear in bond court Wednesday.
This attack happened near the Chicago Board of Trade Building and the LaSalle Street Metra station. It was the second fatal stabbing downtown in two weeks.
On Aug. 23, Jeremy Walker, 36, was stabbed in the neck during a road rage attack in the first block of West Ohio Street, police said. A man was charged with murder in the attack.
