Baby Girl Fatally Stabbed By Woman In Home: Chicago Police

CHICAGO — A woman is charged with first-degree murder after she stabbed a baby girl in the chest and jumped out an upstairs window of a home on Chicago’s south side, according to police.

Tatiana Maxwell, 25, of the 3000 block of West 59th Street in Chicago, faces two counts of murder in connection with the stabbing Friday, police announced Sunday.

The victim was identified Saturday as Nyhnia Stovall, according to the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.

The incident occurred around 7:20 a.m. Friday at a home in the same block where Maxwell lived, according to police. The infant suffered a puncture wound to the chest and was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital, where she died, police said.

Maxwell jumped from an upper-level window during the incident, suffered injuries and was stabilized at UChicago Medicine, according to police, who said a knife was recovered at the scene. She was arrested around 8:45 a.m. Friday, police said.