A woman was stabbed to death and a man was shot in the leg in the Portage Park neighborhood on the Far Northwest Side Tuesday afternoon, authorities said.
Emergency workers found the woman with stab wounds in the 5600 block of West Leland Avenue. They took her to Ascension Resurrection, where she was pronounced dead, according to Chicago Fire Department spokesman Lawrence Langford. The woman’s identity wasn’t released.
The wounded man was taken to Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge in fair condition with a gunshot wound to the leg and a third person left the scene, Langford said.
The stabbing happened about 2:20 p.m., according to Chicago police spokesman Tom Ahern, who couldn’t immediately provide additional details.
At the crime scene, a red switchblade lay in the middle of the residential street about 3:30 p.m. as an evidence marker sat next to a pool of blood on the south sidewalk as officers spoke to neighbors on their front stairs.
A neighbor who said he lived on the next block north said he heard four shots.
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.
