According to authorities a 71-year-old woman was walking by a sidewalk around 1:30 p.m. in the 200 block of South Canal Street when she was attacked by a man who stabbed her in the back seven times with a “sharp object” leaving the crime scene.
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The attacker was taken into custody a short time later by responding officers. The woman was transported to Northwestern Memorial Hospital where she was initially reported to be in critical condition, according to authorities.
The victim’s husband told NBC Chicago over the phone that the woman, Arlene Rado, was attacked randomly while walking her dog, initially thinking that she was being punched.
“She was just walking down the street coming back home and an arm went around her neck from behind… He immediately started stabbing her,” Alan Rado, the woman’s husband, said.
In light of the incidents, 2nd Ward Ald. Brian Hopkins is calling for an increase in mounted police units to disperse large teen gatherings in Streeterville while pushing for an 8 p.m. curfew time for unaccompanied minors.
