Judge Finds Woman Incompetent to Stand Trial in Fatal Stabbing of 3-Year-Old Outside Supermarket
Associated Press, September 16, 2024
A woman who authorities say fatally stabbed a 3-year-old boy as he sat in a grocery cart outside an Ohio supermarket and wounded his mother has been found incompetent to stand trial.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge John Russo issued the ruling Friday. He said Bionca Ellis, 33, of Cleveland, will remain hospitalized indefinitely and could eventually stand trial if she improves.
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Authorities have said Ellis was inside the Giant Eagle grocery store on June 3 in the Cleveland suburb of North Olmsted when she saw Julian Wood and his mother, Margot Wood {snip}
The mother was about to load her groceries into her vehicle when Ellis ran at them with a knife, stabbing the boy twice {snip}
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