Woman allegedly stabs 3-year-old boy to death in random attack at grocery store parking lot
A 3-year old boy has been stabbed to death outside an Ohio grocery store in a random attack allegedly by a woman.
The attack was on the boy, Julian and his mother, Margot Wood at around 3 p.m. Monday, June 3 . They were both stabbed in the parking lot of a Giant Eagle in North Olmsted, around 15 miles outside Cleveland, according to the police.
While Julian succumbed to stab wounds to the back and cheek, the 38 year old mother survived with non-life threatening injuries, police said.
The suspect who is 32 year old Bionca Ellis has been taken into custody, according to the police.
In a news conference on Tuesday, the North Olmsted police Detective Sgt. Matt Beck disclosed that Ellis and the victims didn’t know each other and he called it “a random act of violence”.
Ellis obtained “some type of kitchen knife” at a nearby store and walked to the Giant Eagle, where she “spotted Mrs. Wood and her son and then proceeded to follow them out to the parking lot,” Beck said.
Ellis then allegedly attacked the mother and son near their car as Julian sat in the shopping cart.
“As a mother, I cannot even begin to fathom this sense of loss that this family is going through,” North Olmsted Mayor Nicole Dailey Jones said at Tuesday’s news conference.
“The city and I all share in your loss.”
Ellis was charged with aggravated murder, while additional charges will be filed later,
