An 8-year-old boy was found after he was abducted from Chicago’s South Side, triggering an Illinois Amber Alert from the Chicago Police Department early Friday morning, authorities said.
UPDATE: A suspect in the abduction of an 8-year-old boy that led to an Amber Alert being issued in Illinois has been arrested in Indiana, hours after the child was found and hospitalized in Chicago, officials said. Read more here.
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An 8-year-old boy was found after he was abducted from Chicago's South Side, triggering an Illinois Amber Alert from the Chicago Police Department early Friday morning, authorities said.
The boy was taken from the 7100 block of South Eberhart in the city's Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood and last seen around 7:40 p.m. Thursday, according to the Amber Alert.
At around 4:30 a.m. Friday, the Amber Alert was canceled when the boy was found "unharmed," according to the Amber Alert.
Police sources told NBC Chicago the child was found near 82nd and Damen and was taken to Comer Children's Hospital in unknown condition.
Around the same time of the child's reported abduction, police also reported two stabbings in the same neighborhood, leaving a woman killed and an 11-year-old injured. While authorities have not connected the incidents to the child's abduction, a relative of one of the victims told NBC Chicago the incidents appear related.
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The first stabbing happened just before 7 p.m. in the 7100 block of South Eberhart, where authorities say a 33-year-old woman was found inside a home with multiple stab wounds. The woman was taken to an area hospital where she was pronounced dead, police said.
Just after 8 p.m., officers said they were called to the 200 block of West 66th Street, where firefighters were treating an 11-year-old boy with multiple stab wounds to the chest. The child was taken to Comer Children's Hospital in critical condition.
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