Woman stabbed on Chicago prepare platform names ex-boyfriend as killer earlier than demise: cops

A Chicago man has been charged with murder for the savage stabbing of his ex-girlfriend on a prepare platform after the sufferer named him as her attacker collectively along with her dying breath, police acknowledged.

Alejandro Arellano, 31, was taken into custody Sunday on one rely of first-degree murder stemming from the killing of 26-year-old Samantha Maldonado.

“A key piece of evidence in this case came from the victim herself: she named Arellano as the offender before she succumbed to her injuries,” First Deputy Supt. Eric Carter acknowledged all through a press conference Monday saying the prices, reported ABC 7 Chicago.

According to prosecutors, Arellano and Maldonado have been co-workers who had been in a relationship for about six months earlier than breaking up ultimate week.

In the early hours of Saturday morning, the earlier couple have been seen sitting throughout the nook at Miller’s Pub in Chicago’s downtown Loop neighborhood.

Shortly earlier than closing time spherical 1:20 a.m., Maldonado was seen understanding of the bar, with Arellano following shut behind her.

The woman tried to go looking out refuge from her pursuer on a platform on the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) station at Wabash Ave. and Adams St.

During the chase, a surveillance digicam allegedly caught Arellano taking a folding knife out of his pocket, extending the blade after which putting it once more in his pocket.

Maldonado tried to cowl behind a CTA gear area after which board an arriving prepare, nonetheless in response to prosecutors, her ex-boyfriend thwarted her attempt by pushing her away from the open doorways.

The prepare then departed the station, leaving Maldonado alone with Arellano on the platform. As seen on surveillance video, prosecutors acknowledged, Maldonado tried to walk away, and that’s when Arellano allegedly attacked her.

“As the defendant approached the victim from behind, he grabbed her neck and shoulder area and stabbed her multiple times,” Cook County State’s Attorney Anne McCord acknowledged all through Arellano’s preliminary court docket docket look Monday.

The 26-year-old was knifed on the very least 4 cases, along with throughout the chest, stomach and left arm, reported the native outlet WTTW.  

A mortally injured Maldonado was able to draw again from her attacker and stumble down the steps whereas bleeding from her wounds and gasping for air.

While Arellano boarded a prepare and headed residence, his ex-girlfriend collapsed in the midst of the street.

Witnesses, amongst them security guards from Miller’s Pub, rushed to the woman’s help. Prosecutors acknowledged that after they requested her who had stabbed her, Maldonado allegedly replied, “Alejandro.”

The woman moreover reportedly acknowledged ​her former boyfriend as a result of the perpetrator by his full title to paramedics who’ve been referred to as to the scene.

Maldonado was rushed to a neighborhood hospital, the place she was pronounced ineffective.

Less than 14 hours later, police showing on the tip acquired from the sufferer in her final moments busted the 31-year-old Arellano outdoor his residence throughout the 1600 block of North Kimball Avenue.

Prosecutors acknowledged he was sporting the an identical clothes he had on in the midst of the stabbing, and he nonetheless had the murder weapon in his pocket.

Arellano’s pants, sneakers and knife have been found to be coated with suspected blood.

Maldonado’s family members acknowledged the woman was an engineer who had moved from her native Ecuador to Chicago trying to find a better life decrease than a yr prior to now.

Maldonado’s cousin knowledgeable ABC 7 that her family members are glad that collectively along with her dying breath she was able to share crucial information that resulted in her suspected killer’s swift arrest.

“We’re just really grateful that we’re able to have an answer,” the relative acknowledged. “It helps the family feel more at peace.”

During a police interview, Arellano allegedly acknowledged himself throughout the surveillance video taken from the crime scene, and knowledgeable detectives that he had argued with the woman seen throughout the footage and “poked” her as quickly as with a knife.

Arellano has been ordered held with out bond. He is due once more in court docket docket on March 31.

The suspect’s felony file, cited by Fox 32 Chicago, signifies that he had been arrested in 2014 for allegedly pulling a knife on anyone. He was charged with aggravated assaults, nonetheless that case was later dismissed.