{"id":160029,"date":"2025-08-20T03:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/160029\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T03:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T03:03:12","slug":"teen-girl-killed-in-stabbing-in-la-grange-highlands-illinois-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/160029\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen girl killed in stabbing in La Grange Highlands, Illinois identified"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                   CBS News Live <\/p>\n<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/keyart-chicago-1920x1080.jpg\"   class=\"temp__img\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                              <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/live\/\" class=\"embed__headline-link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>          CBS News Chicago<\/p>\n<p>          Live<\/p>\n<p>                      <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Authorities have identified a 16-year-old girl who died after being stabbed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/chicago\/news\/large-police-response-shooting-stabbing-la-grange-highlands-illinois\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in La Grange Highlands, Illinois last week.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The man suspected of stabbing the victim, as well as a 48-year-old woman, was later shot and wounded by Cook County sheriff&#8217;s police.<\/p>\n<p>At 5:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 11, a Cook County sheriff&#8217;s police officer responded to a domestic violence call in the 6400 block of Joliet Road in the unincorporated community in Lyons Township.<\/p>\n<p>The officer found a man holding the 47-year-old woman a woman at knifepoint on the floor, and the woman was visibly bleeding, according to Cook County sheriff&#8217;s police.<\/p>\n<p>The 16-year-old girl was lying motionless and bleeding on the floor, police said.<\/p>\n<p>An officer ordered the man to release the woman. He briefly put a knife to his own throat, but then began stabbing the woman again, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The officer fired one shot and struck the man in the leg, police said.<\/p>\n<p>At 10:13 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 14, one of the victims \u2014 16-year-old Emily Romo \u2014 was pronounced dead at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood.<\/p>\n<p>The 48-year-old woman was taken to an area hospital in serious condition.<\/p>\n<p>The suspected attacker, 35-year-old Juan Carlos Perez-Abarca, was charged on Wednesday of last week with two counts of attempted murder and one count of home invasion. Charges were to be upgraded to murder after the teenage girl&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p>Perez-Abarca appeared in a wheelchair at the Bridgeview Courthouse Friday, where he was ordered to be held in custody. He is due back in court on Sept. 5.<\/p>\n<p>      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/adam-harrington\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adam  Harrington<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Adam Harrington is a web producer at CBS Chicago, where he first arrived in January 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CBS News Live CBS News Chicago Live Authorities have identified a 16-year-old girl who died after being stabbed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":160030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[1582,276,2961,224,5337],"class_list":{"0":"post-160029","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-california","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-los-angeles","12":"tag-losangeles"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115058875093308593","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}