{"id":5619,"date":"2026-10-05T07:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T12:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/girls-fatal-chicago-stabbing-raises-system-questions\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T07:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T12:29:14","slug":"girls-fatal-chicago-stabbing-raises-system-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/girls-fatal-chicago-stabbing-raises-system-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl\u2019s Fatal Chicago Stabbing Raises System Questions"},"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%2FCQGcKGAS-Ls%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"&amp;apos;HORRIFIC&amp;apos;: Chicago mayor under FIRE after girl stabbed to DEATH in broad daylight\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CQGcKGAS-Ls?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 5, 2026 (STL.News) The broad-daylight stabbing death of a 7-year-old girl walking with her older sister on Chicago\u2019s South Side has devastated her family and raised questions about how the woman now charged with killing her was handled during previous encounters with the Cook County criminal justice system. Shavon Gayden, 48, has been charged with one felony count of first-degree murder in connection with the killing, according to Chicago police. Police said the girl was walking near 86th Street and South Cottage Grove Avenue shortly before noon Saturday when a woman approached and stabbed<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/girls-fatal-chicago-stabbing-raises-system-questions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, IL \u2013 October 5, 2026 (STL.News) The broad-daylight stabbing death of a 7-year-old girl walking with her older sister on Chicago\u2019s South Side has devastated her family and raised questions about how the woman now charged with killing her&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5619","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\/5619","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=5619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5621,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5619\/revisions\/5621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}