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Suspect Held in Logan Square Stabbing-Arson as Police Probe Weekend Shootings

Chicago investigators have detained the Logan Square stabbing-arson suspect alongside ongoing probes into nearly 20 shooting victims from the Fourth of July weekend.

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Overview

  • At least 19 people were shot in separate incidents across Chicago since Thursday night, including two who died.
  • A 45-year-old woman is in custody for stabbing three children in their Logan Square home on Friday morning, killing a 4-year-old and seriously wounding two siblings before setting the house on fire.
  • Smoke from the blaze spread to a neighboring house, sending two residents and three officers to Stroger Hospital with inhalation injuries.
  • Friday night’s Back of the Yards shooting wounded seven people, and early Saturday a Little Village drive-by left four more injured, three critically.
  • An Avalon Park shooting on Friday killed a 16-year-old girl and injured a 35-year-old man, and no arrests have been announced in connection with any of the holiday weekend shootings.