The identities of a suspect and a woman he allegedly stabbed to death Tuesday afternoon in Portage Park have been released by officials.
The Cook County Medical Examiner's Office identified the woman as 54-year-old Lacramioara Beldie, of the 6000 block of North Harding Avenue.The incident also left an off-duty Chicago police detective wounded by gunfire after he intervened in the stabbing Tuesday afternoon.
While attempting to stop the assailant, police said the detective sustained a graze wound to the leg. The woman stabbed succumbed to her injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene."I heard her scream then I heard the gunshots, and that’s when my heart sank it was a blood curdling heart dropping type of scream,” neighbor Thomas Desenfants said.
Area residents also expressed concern over the incident's proximity to an elementary school, with the horrifying attack unfolding just around a block away from Prussing Elementary School.
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