A 3-year-old boy stabbed by a girl in a grocery retailer parking zone in Ohio has died in what investigators consider was a random assault, police stated. The boy’s mom was injured through the assault.
The boy and his mom had been going again to their car after purchasing on the Big Eagle grocery on Monday when a girl ran at them with a knife, stabbing each of them, police stated.
A number of North Olmsted law enforcement officials took the suspect into custody, whereas different officers gave first support to each victims.
The boy later died at a hospital. Authorities recognized him as Julian Wooden, CBS affiliate WOIO-TV reported.
North Olmsted police recognized the suspect as Bionca Ellis, 32, of Cleveland, the station reported. She was taken into custody on the scene in North Olmsted, a Cleveland suburb, police stated.
“Our most honest heartfelt ideas are with the victims of this horrible and mindless occasion at the moment,” North Olmstead firefighters stated in a social media submit.
Police didn’t launch the identification of the boy’s mom or her situation.
“Our hearts exit to the 2 victims of what seems to be a random act of violence,” North Olmsted Mayor Nicole Dailey Jones wrote in an announcement.
The stabbing occurred on the identical Big Eagle the place a murder-suicide happened in June final 12 months, WOIO-TV reported.