A 6-year-old boy is assumed to have used a kitchen knife to fatally stab his 2-year-old brother in southwest suburban Joliet Friday night, Joliet police stated.
Officers discovered the boy with a number of stab wounds simply after 5 p.m. in a house on the 2700 block of Fairway Drive, in line with a information launch from the police division. The kid was pronounced useless at Ascension St. Joseph Medical Middle, police stated.
Police stated their investigation to date signifies that the older boy stabbed his little brother with a kitchen knife. The youngsters’s household was cooperating with the investigation and the Illinois Division of Kids and Household Providers was additionally engaged on the probe, in line with the information launch.
An id for the boy was not accessible Friday evening. No different particulars have been instantly accessible.
