A suspect was in custody Friday in Indiana after a series of stabbings left a woman dead and wounded her two young sons, one of whom had been reported missing.
Teone Jones, 33, was stabbed in her back and abdomen about 7 p.m. Thursday in her home in the 7100 block of South Eberhart Avenue, Chicago police and the Cook County medical examiner’s office said. Jones was rushed to University of Chicago Medical Center and pronounced dead.
Her 11-year-old son was discovered by police in the 200 block of West 66th Street, and his 8-year-old brother was found in the 8200 block of South Damen Avenue, police said. Both boys suffered stab wounds and were hospitalized in critical condition, though they have since been stabilized.
The younger boy had been reported missing after he was abducted in the same block his mother was killed, according to Illinois State Police. An Amber Alert, issued 40 minutes after the fatal attack, was canceled early Friday.
About 9:30 a.m. Friday, license plate readers alerted the Lake County, Indiana, sheriff’s office that the vehicle in the Amber Alert was in the area, a Lake County sheriff spokesperson said. Officers, Indiana State Police and the sheriff’s office aviation unit responded to Interstate 65 and U.S. 30 where the car was spotted.
The suspect was stopped by officers but refused to get out of the vehicle and put a knife to his neck, according to the sheriff’s office. The suspect, 39, was taken into custody and treated at a nearby emergency room for a superficial wound to the neck and further evaluation.
The car was kept for further investigation.
A 33-year-old woman was fatally stabbed at this building in the 7100 block of South Eberhart Avenue in the Grand Crossing neighborhood.
Bloody handprints stain the wall in the lobby of a building in the 7100 block of South Eberhart Avenue in the Grand Crossing neighborhood.
On Friday morning, bloody handprints could still be seen on a wall near the entrance of Jones’ apartment building.
A man who lives across the street said Jones was “all about her three kids.” He often saw her taking her kids to school and knew something was wrong when police showed up at the apartment with a body bag.
“It’s gut-wrenching,” said the neighbor, who didn’t want to be identified by name. “To see something like that happen is a tragedy.”
Other neighbors said the block is mostly quiet and kid-friendly. Another neighbor said safety factored into his decision to move to the area two months ago.
“It’s scary,” said the man, who asked to remain anonymous. “I have kids. I didn’t want something like this to happen.”
Cynthia Keel, an associate pastor at New Life Covenant Church Southeast, stands on her porch Friday in the 200 block of West 66th Street in Grand Crossing, less than 24 hours after an 11-year-old boy with multiple stab wounds to the chest banged on her door seeking help.
Cynthia Keel had just finished eating dinner with her family when she heard loud bangs she thought were coming from her two children in their 30s downstairs.
“I thought ‘OK, someone fell off [gym equipment] or whatever,” said Keel, 62. “Then I hear someone running up the stairs. Bam, bam, bam, bam.”
The boy, his hands covered in blood, desperately pleaded for help as Keel rushed to the door.
“I’m walking to the door and I freeze because it’s like: ‘God, when I open the door, what am I gonna see?’” she said.
When Keel opened the door, she saw two big handprints of blood on her screen door. A faint outline of the prints remained hours after the stabbing as she worked to clean the boy’s blood from her patio.
“He was just trying to get some help,” said Keel, an associate pastor at New Life Covenant Southeast.
Keel said the boy was losing a lot of blood as paramedics made their way to the scene. She prayed for him as EMTs put him on a gurney.
“I just wanted him to live,” Keel said.
Keel said she “didn’t rest well” last night and was cleaning the last of the boy’s blood from her porch on Friday.
Blood could be seen splattered in snow and on the sidewalk on 66th Street and Yale Avenue.
Keel advocated for more individuals to seek therapy to avoid further violence.
“When things don’t go our way, we cannot take people’s lives, we cannot damage people’s lives,” Keel said.
“I cannot imagine their pain and grief,” Keel said of the family. “I pray that they know there are people who care. People who are praying for them.
“They will get through.”
Cynthia Keel cleans blood off her porch Friday in the 200 block of West 66th Street in Grand Crossing.
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