Gun-free Chicago Update: Girl, 14, stabs half-sister, 11, FORTY times

01.23.2014

Community struggles to come to grips with a 14-year-old girl accused of stabbing her 11-year-old half sister to death.

A 14-year-old girl stabbed her 11-year-old half-sister 40 times during a gruesome crime at the family’s suburban Chicago home, police said Wednesday.

The teen is charged with first-degree murder in juvenile court after she allegedly hacked the younger girl to death in her bed in Mundelein, about 40 miles north of Chicago, around 8:30 a.m. Tuesday.

"It's quite a tragedy," Mundelein Mayor Steve Lentz told the Chicago Tribune at press conference. "Please pray for us, first all for the family. . .There's a lot of grief going on right now."

The alleged killer woke up Tuesday, went downstairs to get a knife and returned to her half-sister’s room, where she repeatedly slashed the girl as she told her “she didn’t appreciate the things she had been doing around the house,” WMAQ-TV reported.

The younger sister was found with 30 stab wounds on her neck, arms and chest, with additional cuts on her face, the Tribune reported. The girl had defensive wounds on her hands and bruises on her chest.

“There were signs of a struggle,” Mundelein Police Chief Eric Guenther told the Tribune.

After the shocking crime, cops say the teen called 911 to report that a Hispanic man had entered the home and stabbed her sister, according to WMAQ.

The girl later told detectives the same story, but finally relented and admitted to the sickening crime after cops told her they had hair strands to connect the teen to the killing.

The girls had lived at home for about a year with their mother, but it’s unclear where the woman was during the crime.

The report of the intruder sparked a lockdown at three local schools as police responded, with guns drawn, to the home.

Cops had been to the home, on a quiet cul-de-sac, in the past but for “nothing that pertains to an incident like this,” Guenther told the Tribune.

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