{"id":5634,"date":"2026-10-05T11:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/woman-charged-in-murder-of-7-year-old-chicago-girl\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T11:07:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T16:07:26","slug":"woman-charged-in-murder-of-7-year-old-chicago-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/2026\/10\/05\/woman-charged-in-murder-of-7-year-old-chicago-girl\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman Charged in Murder of 7-Year-Old Chicago Girl"},"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%2FTxErn6ZF94w%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=858&#038;video_height=483)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Woman charged with murder after allegedly stabbing 7-year-old girl on Chicago\u2019s South Side in seemin\" width=\"858\" height=\"483\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TxErn6ZF94w?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) A 48-year-old Chicago woman has been charged with first-degree murder after authorities say a 7-year-old girl was stabbed multiple times in the back while walking along a busy commercial stretch of Chicago\u2019s South Side Saturday morning. Chicago police identified the defendant as Shavon Gayden, 48, who faces one felony count of first-degree murder. The Cook County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office identified the child as Edi Mari Hernandez Chacon, according to the Associated Press, WTTW and FOX 32 Chicago. Some television reports and members of the child\u2019s family have referred to her as<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stl.news\/woman-charged-in-murder-of-7-year-old-chicago-girl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHICAGO, IL \u2013 October 5, 2026 (STL.News) A 48-year-old Chicago woman has been charged with first-degree murder after authorities say a 7-year-old girl was stabbed multiple times in the back while walking along a busy commercial stretch of Chicago\u2019s South&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5635,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5634","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\/5634","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=5634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5636,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634\/revisions\/5636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/directsourcenews.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}