Indiana police on Friday arrested a man suspected of stabbing his girlfriend and her two sons in the Grand Crossing neighborhood hours earlier, killing the woman and leaving both boys in critical condition.
The man, 39, also briefly kidnapped the younger of the two boys before he was apprehended, according to Indiana’s Lake County sheriff’s department. Authorities issued an Amber Alert for the child early Friday morning, which was then canceled after the child, age 8, was found with stab wounds in the suspect’s silver SUV.
Police first found Teone Jones, 33, with stab wounds to the back and abdomen around 7 p.m. Thursday in an apartment on the 7100 block of South Eberhart Avenue. Jones was pronounced dead abut 40 minutes later at University of Chicago Medical Center.
Around 8:30 p.m. Thursday, Chicago police found Jones’ older son, 11, on the 200 block of East 66th Street with at least six puncture wounds to his torso, according to a police report obtained by the Tribune. A witness told police she’d found the child on her front porch calling for help after walking to the house, leaving a trail of blood behind him.
Both boys were in surgery at Comer Children’s Hospital Friday morning, family said.
Sheriff’s police got a license plate alert around 9:30 a.m. Friday about the car described in the alert and started pursuing it about 10 minutes later in Merrillville. Officers ordered the man out of the car, who at first refused and held a knife to his neck. He was eventually arrested with what the sheriff’s office described as a superficial neck wound and brought to a nearby hospital for treatment.
The Lake County sheriff’s department was holding the man’s car for the CPD investigation, according to the news release. Court records from 2023 list the suspect’s address as the same residence where the alleged stabbing took place.
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