Woman Charged With Fatally Stabbing 7-Year-Old Girl Walking in Chicago Saturday

A 7-year-old girl was fatally stabbed while walking in front of businesses in the Chatham neighborhood, and people nearby detained the woman who attacked her, police said.

Chicago police said the girl was walking in the South Side neighborhood late Saturday morning when a woman carrying an unspecified sharp object approached her and stabbed her multiple times in the back.

The Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the girl as Edi Mari Hernandez Chacon. She died at a hospital.

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Shavon Gayden, 48, of the 8700 block of S. Constance Ave., was charged with first-degree murder, police announced Sunday.

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