Pair Of Chicago Infants Dead After Mother Jumps From 11th Floor S South Shore Drive Building

CHICAGO, IL. (THECOUNT) — Two infants are dead Thursday after a Chicago woman stabbed a man, left one baby in a bathtub and then leapt from the 11th floor of an apartment building on Chicago’s South Shore while holding another infant, according to preliminary information from Chicago police.

Officers say, officials arrived to the 7200 block of S South Shore Drive about 1:50 a.m. on reports of a jumper.

When police arrived, they found the woman, believed to be in her 30s, on the ground with her 1-year-old son, Chicago police said. Both were deceased of massive blunt force trauma.

After building security directed them to the 11th floor apartment, the officers found an unresponsive male baby in the bathtub and a 70-year-old man with stab wounds and cuts to his face and body, police said. The man told officers that his daughter stabbed him before jumping out of the window with her son, reports FOXLA.

Chicago police tape off the entry to an apartment building where a woman stabbed her father, left a baby in a bathtub, then jumped from the 11th floor with another Jan. 2, 2019.

Both infants were transported to to area hospital where they were pronounced dead, police said.

The man and woman were hospitalized at the University of Chicago Medical Center in critical condition.

Police could not confirm if the other baby, 2, was the woman’s child.

Area Central detectives are investigating.

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