‘Domestic Violence-type’ Hospital Stabbing Leaves 1 Dead
A man is in police custody after a woman was stabbed to death while visiting a family member inside the Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Illinois.
The Alexian Brothers Medical Center, which was the sight of Sunday's fatal stabbing, is located in Elk Grove Village, Illinois.
A woman who died Sunday is believed to have been stabbed to death by her estranged husband while she visited a patient inside an Illinois hospital.
Javier Bahena, 43, has been taken into custody after Wisconsin-native Francisca Quintero, 42, was stabbed while visiting a family member at Alexian Brothers Medical Center in Elk Grove Village, according to the Chicago Tribune. Quintero was pronounced dead at 1:10 p.m. on Sunday.
Quintero and the man were both visiting a relative at Alexian Brothers around 11:30 a.m. when Bahena allegedly stabbed Quintero in an attack police are labeling a “domestic violence-type incident,”reports the Chicago Tribune.
The hospital was never placed on lockdown and no one else was hurt.
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