A 25-year-old Chicago woman has been charged with murder after allegedly stabbing a baby girl to death and then leaping from an upper-level window, cops said.
Tatiana Maxwell was hurt in the fall, and taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center where she was arrested after being treated for her injuries.
The baby, identified by police as Nyhnia Stovall, was brought to Comer Children’s Hospital where she died.
The alleged fatal stabbing took place in the 3000 block of W. 59th Street in Gage Park on the city’s south side, according to cops, who said they found a knife at the scene.
A witness told Fox 32 Chicago what he saw at the grisly scene.
“I didn’t see [the baby] bleeding, but it looked limp and after that, they put two kids in the squad car … they took off and then, at that point, more squad cars came and two ambulances,” he said.
“Then I saw the lady hit the ground. I didn’t see where she jumped from, but I did see her hit the ground and then fall on her side.”
The Chicago Police Department confirmed Maxwell has been charged with one felony count of murder in the first degree as well as a charge for murder with a strong probability to cause death or injury, also a felony.
Police did not reveal what, if any, relationship she had to the murdered infant.