A Chicago man – wanted for fatally stabbing a woman and injuring her two sons – has been charged in Indiana for fleeing the cops before his high-profile arrest Friday.
Marcus Bausley, 39, of the 7100 block of S. Eberhart Avenue, is charged with one count of resisting law enforcement, a Level 6 felony. If convicted, he could face up to 2 ½ years in prison.
The sheriff’s department in Lake County, Indiana, got a license plate alert around 9:30 a.m. Friday about the car described in the Amber Alert and started pursuing it about 10 minutes later in Merrillville. Officers ordered the man out of the car on Interstate 65, south of US 231. He refused at first 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. Bausley was treated for a stomach wound.
The sheriff’s department was holding the man’s car for the Chicago Police Department’s 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.
A Chicago detective told Indiana cops that he expected to forward the case to a grand jury on Saturday, according to documents. A Cook County warrant has been issued; he is expected to be extradited at a later date.
Bausley is being held at the Lake County Jail without bond, according to sheriff’s spokeswoman Pam Jones and court filings.
Teone Jones, 33, and her sons Darius Gaters, 11, and Tristan Gaters, 8, were found stabbed earlier on Friday, according to the Chicago Tribune. The boys “were in critical condition, both undergoing multiple surgeries by Friday afternoon,” the newspaper reported.
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