{"id":5558,"date":"2026-10-03T20:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T01:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/03\/7-year-old-girl-fatally-stabbed-on-chicago-sidewalk\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T20:41:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T01:41:25","slug":"7-year-old-girl-fatally-stabbed-on-chicago-sidewalk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/03\/7-year-old-girl-fatally-stabbed-on-chicago-sidewalk\/","title":{"rendered":"7-Year-Old Girl Fatally Stabbed on Chicago Sidewalk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 858\/483\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2Fw1vBQhIz550%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Girl, 7, stabbed to death on Chicago sidewalk in broad daylight\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w1vBQhIz550?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen src=\"about:blank\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div> CHICAGO, IL \u2013 October 3, 2026 (STL.News) A 7-year-old girl was fatally stabbed on a Chicago sidewalk Saturday morning in an attack that ended with bystanders intervening and detaining the woman accused of stabbing the child, according to Chicago police and multiple local news reports. The killing occurred shortly before noon in the 8600 block of South Cottage Grove Avenue on Chicago\u2019s South Side. Police said the girl was walking outside when a woman approached her, displayed what authorities described as a sharp object, and stabbed the child multiple times in the back. The girl was rushed to<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/7-year-old-girl-fatally-stabbed-on-chicago-sidewalk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, IL \u2013 October 3, 2026 (STL.News) A 7-year-old girl was fatally stabbed on a Chicago sidewalk Saturday morning in an attack that ended with bystanders intervening and detaining the woman accused of stabbing the child, according to Chicago police&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5560,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5558\/revisions\/5560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}