New particulars have emerged within the random, deadly stabbing of a toddler outdoors an Ohio grocery retailer.
Police say 32-year-old Bionca Ellis fatally stabbed Julian Wooden, three, whereas within the parking zone of a Large Eagle grocery store in North Olmsted together with his mom, Margot Wooden. Ellis has since been arrested and charged with 10 counts, together with aggravated homicide, Sergeant Matthew Beck of the North Olmsted Police Division instructed The Unbiased.
Ellis is being held on $1m bond. Police say Ellis stabbed the boy on Monday and walked away inside seconds, giving witnesses close by no time to cease the assault, the Related Press beforehand reported. Nasja Aude, Julian’s aunt, says Margot was additionally stabbed.
“Whereas Margot was opening the trunk of her automotive to place groceries away the lady viciously attacked and stabbed each Margot and Julian,” Aude wrote on a GoFundMe for the Wooden household. “Medical and Emergency providers have been on web site instantly… Margot and Julian have been rushed to St John hospital, however Julian’s accidents have been far too intensive and he didn’t make it.”
Sgt Beck instructed The Unbiased that Ellis had by no means made contact with Julian or his household earlier than the deadly stabbing.
![Three-year-old Julian Wood, pictured, was fatally stabbed in a grocery store parking lot. Julian’s family describes him as a ‘sweet little boy’ with a ‘cheesy smile’ and ‘rambunctious attitude’](https://i0.wp.com/static.independent.co.uk/2024/06/05/20/80544971_1717521075604147_r%20%281%29.jpeg?w=662&ssl=1)
“The motive continues to be unknown,” Sgt Beck mentioned. “She is just not cooperating with us so far as wanting to clarify herself.” Ellis was indicted a day after the stabbing and can now face arraignment within the coming weeks.
Ellis has had two “prior run-ins with regulation enforcement”, Sgt Beck mentioned. The primary occasion was in Florida for a “minor crime”. The second got here in 2023 when Ellis was charged with theft at a North Olmsted Walmart.
She pled responsible to lesser fees and was placed on six-month probation, police instructed native outlet Cleveland 19. Nonetheless, she was briefly taken into custody final week after police discovered she didn’t full an academic program ordered as a part of her probation.
Choose Brian Hagan at Rocky River Municipal Courtroom, who oversaw the theft case, instructed Cleveland 19 that Ellis has no obvious historical past of psychological sickness. Sgt Beck instructed Cleveland 19 that police are trying into the likelihood however don’t have anything “concrete”.
![Bionca Ellis, pictured, was arrested this week after police say she fatally stabbed a three-year-old boy in an Ohio grocery store parking lot](https://i0.wp.com/static.independent.co.uk/2024/06/05/20/Screenshot%202024-06-05%20at%2012.00.30%20PM.png?w=662&ssl=1)
Nasja Aude, Julian’s aunt, mentioned the household would proceed to cherish and bear in mind the “candy little boy”.
“This might be an extremely lengthy journey to restoration, however in truth we are going to by no means get well – however we are going to proceed to share tales about our stunning child boy, his chortle, his tacky smile, his rambunctious perspective, his love of dinosaurs, his love of faculty, his obsession together with his new child sister and wrestling his massive brother each likelihood he will get… and all the opposite stunning issues about that candy little boy,” Aude wrote on GoFundMe.
“That is one thing no individual, no household, no mom, no father, no grandmother ought to ever expertise,” she continued. “We urge you all to carry your infants shut. This could have by no means occurred.”
The GoFundMe has raised greater than $100,000 as of Wednesday afternoon, far surpassing Aude’s objective of $10,000.
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