Person of interest arrested in stabbing of teen girl in Lowell, Indiana
Offiicals say just before he was arrested, Yanez was getting his hair cut to change his appearance.
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Offiicals say just before he was arrested, Yanez was getting his hair cut to change his appearance.
Offiicals say just before he was arrested, Yanez was getting his hair cut to change his appearance.
The Lake County Sheriff's Department identified the person of interest as 26-year-old Dimas Gabriel Yanez. He is described as 5 feet 6 inches tall and 150 pounds with brown eyes and black hair.
Police in Lake County, Indiana, are searching for someone who stabbed a 14-year-old girl in her hand.
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"I saw a little blood on the axe, and he was smiling. He was smiling and walking with the axe like this and eating a cookie," a man outside said.
The man was apprehended after he was spotted near the scene sometime after the attack at the McDonald's on Western Avenue on the Southwest Side. Shardaa Gray reports.
"I saw a little blood on the axe, and he was smiling. He was smiling and walking with the axe like this and eating a cookie," a man outside the McDonald's said.
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